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.
comments. Former WWE superstar Nicole Bass was arrested on Tuesday night in New York after allegedly shoplifting more than $1,200 in goods from a supermarket. The 50-year-old was taken into custody at the Stop & Shop store in Glendale-a suburb in east Queens, near Woodhaven-about 8pm.