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).