On April 19, 1995, a truck-bomb explosion outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, left 168 people dead and hundreds more injured. The blast was set off by anti-government militant Timothy McVeigh, who in 2001 was executed for his crimes. His co-conspirator Terry Nichols received life in prison. Until September 11, 2001, the Oklahoma City bombing was the worst terrorist attack to take place on U.S. soil. Both men were found to be members of a radical right-wing survivalist group based in Michigan.
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The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building two days after the bombing
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Sources:
Oklahoma City Bombing via History.com
Oklahoma City Bombing wikipedia entry.
Dominic Adams, “Oklahoma City bombing memories fade in rural Michigan town at center of plot”, MLive, April 19, 2015.