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.
Mary Leigh, an active Suffragette, spent time in prison because of her activities that were deemed to be illegal â and frequently were.Life in prison for Suffragettes was made very unpleasant but if anything this seemed to spur on the more hardline Suffragettes even more:âOn my arrival at Winson Green Goal on Wednesday afternoon, September 22nd, I protested against the treatment to which I was subjected and broke the windows in my cell.ary Leigh, an active Suffragette, spent time in prison because of her activities that were deemed to be illegal â and frequently were.