April thumb|upright|April 19: A car bomb explodes outside a Federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 April 7 – First Chechen War: Samashki massacre – Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of at least 250 civilians in Samashki, Chechnya. April 19 – Oklahoma City bombing: 168 people, including eight federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and 680 are wounded by a bomb set off by Timothy McVeigh. April 30 – The United States government stops funding the NSFNET, making the Internet a wholly privatized system.
April thumb|upright|April 19: A car bomb explodes outside a Federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 April 7 – First Chechen War: Samashki massacre – Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of at least 250 civilians in Samashki, Chechnya. April 19 – Oklahoma City bombing: 168 people including eight federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building and 680 are wounded by a bomb set off by Timothy McVeigh. April 30 – The United States government stops funding the NSFNET, making the Internet a wholly privatized system