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June
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This month's history highlight. Hank P., had pushed Bill into the direction of writing the Big Book this month of June 1938. Jimmy B. who's story is in the Bib Book said: "Bill was naturally given the job of writing the book for he was the only one who had made any conclusive study of our problem." Jimmy went on to say, "Bill's only special preparation of this was confined to the reading of four very well known books the influence of which can clearly be seen in the Bib Book. (1) William James,
The Varieties of Religious Experience." (2) Emmit Fox's "Sermon on the Mount." (3) Dick Peabody's "Common Sense of Drinking." (4) Lewis Browne's "This Believing World."
 

June is important
in our history which
includes our 'Birth-Month.'

  
 
1865 -June 15th
Jabez Tunnicliff dies in Leeds, England. Founder of the "Bands of Hope" movement.,one of the first juvenile temperance organizations.
  1892 - June 21st
Born near Lexington Kentucky, Bill Dotson. He will become "A.A. Number Three." His story is in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th editions of the Big Book.
 
1906 - June 30th
President Roosevelt signs "The Pure Food and Drug Act" into law. It requires Tahiti if the presence of alcohol is in any patent medicine, it must be indicated on the label.
 
1914 - June
Sister Ignatia, birth name Bridget Della Mary Gavin with a great desire for religion joined the "Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine" with her first assignment, teaching music.
 
1925 - June
the "Public Health Service Hospital" o[pens in Lexington, Kentucky ... the first combined hospital farm and prison to provide a treatment program aimed at helping alcoholics return to productive lives.
 
1935 - June 10th
Dr. Bob said this is the date he took his last drink, a beer, to steady his nerves before he performed surgery at City Hospital in Akron Ohio. Bill, a month before had brought Dr. Bob the message of sobriety and together, on this date they co-founded what would become "Alcoholics Anonymous" four years later.
  1939 - June
The New York Times favorably reviews a new book on the marked called: "Alcoholics Anonymous."
 
1940 - June
Six San Quentin inmates read a copy of the Bib Book together and led by "Big George M." formed the first A.A. group inside any prison.
 
1941 - June
Published by our New York Office, the first directory of A..A. Groups. We have 3,500 members in 20 cities. There are 44 registered groups.
  1944 - June
The Grapevine, Volume One, Number One is printed. It started out to be a local newsletter for A.A. members in the New York area with part of the original concept to be a publication for A.A. members in service to our country overseas during World War II.
  1953 - June
The book" "Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions" is published.
  1999 -June 14th
Special issue of "Time Magazine." The 100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century. Bill Wilson is included with a well written article by reporter Susan Cheever.
 
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