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.
Dublin woman arrested in Spain in organised crime operation. An Irishwoman was among six people arrested in Spain in a police operation against organised crime. Dawn raids took place in Marbella on the Costa del Sol on Tuesday when three men from Salford, aged 28, 25 and 20, were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder, possession of a firearm and membership of an organised crime group.