This Day In Fractured Fairfax:September 29
- September 29, 1946 – 39-year-old farmhand Thurman W. Fincham is fatally shot in the head with a .22 caliber rifle by an incautious hunter while hunting groundhogs on the Fairview Farm where he worked. Fincham's corpse is discovered the following day by another farm employee, 23-year-old Ashby Jenkins.
- September 29, 1965 – 31-year-old Dwight A. Leicy is fatally injured when his car is broadsided by one driven by 31-year-old Charles A. Lipscomb as he waits at a stop sign on Pohick Road at its intersection with Route 1 in Lorton. Leicy is taken to DeWitt Army Hospital on Fort Belvoir, where he dies of his injuries early the next morning.
- September 29, 1969 – 36-year-old Henry S. Robinson chases his former girlfriend, 40-year-old Ethel J. Marsh, into her neighbor's townhouse at 7309 Jon Paul Drive in Alexandria and shoots her to death in an upstairs bedroom. Robinson flees the scene and is found suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his house at 6320 Hibbling Avenue in Springfield.
- September 29, 1985 – The county's Fairfax Connector bus system begins operation.
- September 29, 1987 – Roger W. Whitney is paroled after serving 16 years of a double-life sentence for the July, 1971 murders of Lieutenant Commander William F. Rolland, Sr. and his 19-year-old son Bud.
- September 29, 2003 – 62-year-old Bertha Champagne is crushed to death when her SUV rolls and pins her to an outbuilding at 6202 Fort Hunt Road in Alexandria. She is taken to Mount Vernon Hospital, where she is pronounced dead. Champagne was a long-time nanny for Marvin P. Bush, at whose house she was killed, and was retrieving a video tape from her Oldsmobile Bravada.
- September 29, 2007 – The Oakton Library opens.
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