Sir James Paul McCartney

In Akron, Ohio, Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith, two recovering alcoholics, founded Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), a 12-step rehabilitation program that would eventually help countless
people cope with alcoholism.

Based on psychological techniques that have long been used
in suppressing certain personality traits, members of the strictly anonymous organization control their disease through guided
group discussion and confession.

Dr. Robert Smith (1879 – 1950) and Bill Wilson (1895 – 1971)

Erik Brann, Ron Bushy, Lee Dorman, and Doug Ingle of Iron Butterfly.

Doug Ingle, a founding member and lead singer of Iron Butterfly,
has passed away. No cause of death stated.

Fox News confirmed on Monday that the "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"
singer died on Friday evening May 24.

Between 1974 and 1978, Ingle managed a recreational vehicle
park in the Los Angeles National Forest. He spent time painting
houses in Oregon, Washington and California.

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The American Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton (1821–1912) 
on this day in history, May 21, 1881.

Nurse Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton was born on Christmas
Day, 1821, in North Oxford, Massachusetts, the American Red
Cross website notes.

She spent her early career as a teacher before moving to
Washington, D.C. to work in the U.S. Patent Office.

According to the American Red Cross, at the time of the
American Civil War Barton shifted her career once again,
becoming a battlefield nurse.    
 

Clara Barton was inducted into the National Women’s Hall
of Fame in 1973.

Members of the American Red Cross Corps in a photo taken around 1910.

Photo of a dispensary taken around 1914.

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On May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation that officially establishes the first national Mother’s
Day holiday to celebrate America’s mothers.

Anna Maria Jarvis (1864 – 1948) was the
founder of Mother’s Day in the United
States.