Modern Era · North America · War
1995
Oklahoma City bombing
April 19, 1995
A rented Ryder truck packed with four thousand pounds of ammonium nitrate exploded in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. One hundred sixty-eight died, nineteen of them children in the daycare center. The bomber was Timothy McVeigh, a white army veteran who hated the federal government. Domestic terrorism was now American.
In context
Also in 1995 (5 other events on record)
- Srebrenica massacre · Europe · War
- Rabin assassinated · Middle East · Politics
- Dayton Accords end Bosnian war · Europe · Politics
- Kobe earthquake strikes Japan · East Asia · Disaster
- Tokyo subway sarin attack · East Asia · War
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.