Contemporary era · 1995
Oklahoma City bombing
On April 19, 1995, American anti-government extremist Timothy McVeigh, assisted by Terry Nichols, detonated a makeshift bomb stored in a rental truck parked in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in an act of domestic terrorism. The explosion killed 167 people, injured 684, and destroyed more than a third of the building.
- When
- 19 Apr 1995
- Where
- Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
- Era
- Contemporary
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