This Day In Fractured Fairfax:May 29
- May 29, 1964 – Three teenagers, two of them students at Thomas A. Edison High School, are arrested following a six-day vandalism spree during which they smashed the windshields of 100 automobiles in the Springfield and Mount Vernon areas of the county.
- May 29, 1968 – 30-year-old Barbara A. Smith, a stenographer at the Fairfax County Police Department's Annandale substation, dies at the Fairfax Hospital from complications following a botched abortion. On a recommendation from Fairfax County Police Captain Olin F. Sanders, Smith had been taken to a motel on Route 1 in Alexandria by Calvin D. Hammersley, where she paid $500 to 25-year-old Benjamin T. Brown to perform an abortion on her. Brown's medical expertise apparently consisted of performing janitorial duties as an orderly at the Alexandria Hospital, from where he had recently been fired. Smith returned to her home in Herndon where she lived with her husband and children and collapsed before being taken to the hospital.
- May 29, 1973 – Acting County Executive Robert W. Wilson is appointed to the position by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors.
- May 29, 1993 – 8-month-old Mario Roberto Sierra drowns in Lake Accotink when his family's canoe overturns. The child's body is found by Fairfax County police divers the next day.
- May 29, 1997 – Jimmy's Old Town Tavern opens in Herndon.
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