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.
Contemporary Examples. 1  Asia Bibi, as she is known, was arrested and sentenced to death. 2  ChÃ©rif was arrested in Paris in January 2005 as he was about to board a plane to Damascus along with a man named Thamer Bouchnak. 3  When the man threatened to report him for harassment to the NOPD, Farrell arrested him. The Louisiana Racists Who Courted Steve Scalise Jason Berry January 3, 2015 Friasâwho was arrested in 2013 for interfering with public duties and public intoxicationâwas not carrying a gun at the time.