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.
Watergate burglars arrested, June 17, 1972. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. On this day in 1972, five men were apprehended while breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate, an office-hotel-apartment complex near the Potomac.They possessed burglary tools, cameras, film and pen-size tear gas guns. Got Syria So Wrong. On this day in 1972, five men were apprehended while breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate, an office-hotel-apartment complex near the Potomac.