Archive Tidbits
November History
| Nov 1934 | Ebby T. carries message to Bill. |
| Nov 1936 | Fitz M leaves Towns Hospital to become ‘AA #3 in NY’, with Bill W and Hank P. |
| Nov 1937 | Bill and Dr. Bob compare notes in Akron. Count forty cases staying sober. Meeting of the Akron Group to consider Bill’s ideas for how to expand the movement … a book, AA hospitals, paid missionaries. Passed by a majority of 2. |
| Nov/Dec 1939 | Akron group withdrawals from association with Oxford Group. Meetings moved from T Henry & Clarence Williams to Dr Bob and other members? homes. |
| Nov 1941 | “First Mass AA Meeting” in Oklahoma City, 8 present, 1 was drunk. |
| Nov 1945 | Bill’s article called ‘Those Goof Balls’ published in Grapevine. |
| Nov 1986 | Big Book published in paperback. |
| Nov 1, 1947 | 1st AA Group in Anchorage, Alaska. |
| Nov 1, 1963 | Reverend Sam Shoemaker dies. |
| Nov 3, 2001 | J P Miller who wrote screenplay for “The Days of Wine and Roses” died. |
| Nov 9, 1966 | President Johnson appoints Marty M to the 1st National Advisory Committee on Alcoholism. |
| Nov 10, 1940 | 1st AA group formed in Minneapolis. |
| Nov 10, 2001 | 1st of 400,000 4th Edition Big Books arrives in the mail. |
| Nov 11, 1934 | Armistice Day; Bill started drinking after dry spell, beginning of Bill’s last drunk. |
| Nov 12, 1940 | 1st AA meeting is held in Boston. |
| Nov 13, 1939 | Bill wants to go to work at Towns Hospital, NY drunks want him to stay on as head of the movement. |
| Nov 14, 1940 | Alcoholic Foundation publishes 1st AA Bulletin. |
| Nov 15, 1949 | Bill W suggests that groups devote Thanksgiving week to dicussions of the 12 Traditions. |
| Nov 16, 1950 | Dr. Bob died. |
| Nov 18, 1946 | 1st Dublin Ireland group met. |
| Nov 21, 1939 | AA’s in San Francisco hold 1st California AA meeting in the Clift Hotel. |
| Nov 21, 1952 | Willard Richardson, past Treasurer/Chairman of Alcoholic Foundation, dies. |
| Nov 26, 1895 | Bill W born in East Dorsett, VT. |
| Nov 26, 1939 | Dilworth Lupton gave sermon “Mr. X and Alcoholics Anonymous”. Became one of first pamphlets on AA. |
| Nov 28, 1939 | Hank P writes Bill advocating autonomy for all AA groups. |
| Nov 28, 1943 | Bill guest speaker San Quentin Penitentiary (sometimes dated Dec 2, 1943). |