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.
Criminal. A native of Austria, Bowers was arrested for a post office robbery in 1931 and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. After spending some time at McNeil Island Penitentiary and later Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, he was transferred to the newly opened Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in 1934.rison guards, assuming that he was trying to escape, opened fire in the attempt to stop him. Bowers was hit, knocked off the fence, and fell 60 feet down the cliff behind it to his death. He is considered to be the first federal prisoner to attempt to escape from Alcatraz.