There are all sorts of rumors about how the term 420 came to be associated with lighting up a joint, but according to the myth-busting website Snopes.com, it was born in the 1970s at San Rafael High School in California, where about a dozen students gathered each day at 4:20 p.m. to smoke pot.
Mary Surratt was arrested as a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Louis Weichmann moved into Mary Surrattâs boardinghouse on November 1, 1864. On December 23, 1864, Dr. Samuel Mudd introduced John Surratt, Jr. to John Wilkes Booth. Booth recruited John Jr. into his conspiracy to kidnap Abraham Lincoln.
that Stephen Girard stole from Toussaint Louverture, but not one supplies evidence. They all ultimately go back to the original accusation in a biography of Toussaint Louverture by the French lawyer Gragnon-Lacoste. In this French work of 1877,the alleged thief was named in the text as âStÃ©phenâ or âStevens.âThat assertion, without evidence, is