Short answers, pulled from the story.
Oklahoma City was founded on the 22nd of April 1889 when roughly ten thousand people surged across the Unassigned Lands. This single day event known as the Land Run created a town overnight from prairie grass and dirt.
The discovery of oil within the city limits in 1928 transformed the local economy forever by making it a major center of production. Post-war development followed with the construction of Tinker Air Force Base after lobbying efforts by Stanley Draper.
Timothy McVeigh detonated a fertilizer bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on the 19th of April 1995. The blast killed 168 people inside and injured over 680 individuals while causing an estimated $652 million in property damage.
In 1993, the city passed a massive redevelopment package known as the Metropolitan Area Projects or MAPS to rebuild the city's core. Private investment exceeded $3 billion by 2010 under this public-private partnership model which included the opening of the Devon Energy Center in 2012.
Oklahoma City lies within Tornado Alley where severe weather strikes frequently from March through June. On the 3rd of May 1999, a particularly violent tornado struck parts of the city with wind speeds reaching 302 miles per hour before the scale was updated in 2007.
The percentage of non-Hispanic White residents dropped from 90.7% in 1950 to 49.5% by 2020 while Hispanic or Latino populations grew from 2.0% in 1970 to 21.3%. The metropolitan area now contains nearly 1.49 million residents spread across four counties.