Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio 80 years ago today (June 10 1935)


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(Monday, June 10, 1935; during the Great Depression)Alcoholics Anonymous was founded today in Akron, Ohio, by Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith and William Griffith Wilson when Smith consumed his last drink (a beer to steady his hand for surgery).