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The history of Oklahoma refers to the history of the state of Oklahoma and the land that the state now occupies. Areas of Oklahoma east of its panhandle were acquired in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, while the Panhandle was not acquired until the U.S. land acquisitions following the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).
The Land Run of 1889, the first land run in the territory's history, opened Oklahoma Territory to settlement on April 22, 1889. Over 50,000 people entered the lands on the first day, among them thousands of freedmen and descendants of slaves.
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In 1995, Oklahoma City was the site of the most destructive act of domestic terrorism in American history. The Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995, in which Timothy McVeigh detonated a large, crude explosive device outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killed 168 people, including 19 children. For his crime, McVeigh was executed by ...
1902 – Oklahoma Historical Society headquartered in Oklahoma City. [6] 1905 – Brock Dry Goods in business. [7] 1906 – Oklahoma College for Young Women founded. 1907 Town becomes part of the new U.S. state of Oklahoma. Population: 32,452. [4] Elmer L. Fulton becomes U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district. [8] 1908
April 27, 1942, was anything but ordinary in Pryor, hit hard with tornadic winds, leaving the northeastern Oklahoma town looking like a war zone. A day in Oklahoma history: 82 years ago, a ...
Historians and scholars say white supremacy is a bedrock of Oklahoma’s founding. This timeline looks at some of the notable events in state history.
Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory were combined and admitted to the Union as the State of Oklahoma on November 16, 1907. [21]The Constitution of Oklahoma calls for the election of a governor every four years, to take office on the second Monday in January after the election. [22]