Oklahoma City April 19. 1995 USA

A carbomb exploded in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. 169 people died and about 675 people got injured.
In Oklahoma, a truck bomb was planted by anti-government militant Timothy McVeigh. Nineteen children at a day-care centre were among the victims.
McVeigh was executed in June 2001 for bombing the Murrah building. Accomplice Terry Nichols was given a federal life sentence but faces trial in Oklahoma on 160 state charges of capital murder.
The day was also the anniversary of the fiery end of the 1993 Waco siege in which about 80 members of the Branch Davidians religious group died after FBI agents tried to end a 51-day siege by forcing them out of a central Texas compound.
McVeigh said he bombed the Murrah building in retaliation for the raid, giving the federal government "dirty for dirty."
The Oklahoma ceremony was held at the Oklahoma City National Memorial, a commemorative plaza built on the site of the former Murrah building.

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