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 Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 2:47 am Post subject: dropping 6.9 percent |
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During the 1930s, parts of the state began feeling the consequences of poor farming practices, drought and high winds. Known as the Dust Bowl, areas of Kansas, Texas, New Mexico and northwestern Oklahoma were hampered by long periods of little rainfall and abnormally high temperatures, sending thousands of farmers into poverty and forcing them to relocate to more fertile areas of the western United States.[60] Over a twenty-year period ending in 1950, the state saw its only historical decline in population, dropping 6.9 percent. In response, dramatic efforts in soil and water conservation led to massive flood control systems and dams, creating hundreds of reservoirs and man-made lakes. By the 1960s, more than 200 lakes had been created, the most in the nation.[11][61]
In 1995, Oklahoma City became the scene of one of the worst acts of terrorism ever committed in American history. The Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995, in which Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols detonated an explosive outside of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killed 168 people including 19 children. Timothy McVeigh was executed by the federal government June 11, 2001, while his partner Terry Nichols is currently serving life in prison without the possibility of parole.[62]
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