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1995 - Oklahoma City Bombing

By Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com

Oklahoma City Bombing (1995): On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh drove a truck containing a home-made bomb up to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. When the bomb exploded at 9:02 a.m., the building was decimated and 168 people were left dead.

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