Bicycle Day celebrates Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann's discovery of lysergic acid diethylamide or LSD in 1943, and the subsequent, and at times harrowing, ride home on his bicycle after deliberately ingesting a dose of the drug.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-19/bicycle-day-albert-hoffman-lsd-psychotherapy-research/7336712
Note: This is a different person from Abbot "Abbie" Hoffman who was an anarchist and social activist in the '60s and '70s. He died on April 12, 1989.
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