Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.

Robert Holbrook Smith, also known as Dr. Bob, was an American physician and surgeon who cofounded Alcoholics Anonymous with Bill Wilson.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a global, peer-led mutual-aid fellowship focused on an abstinence-based recovery model from alcoholism through its spiritually inclined twelve-step program. AA's Twelve Traditions, besides emphasizing anonymity, stress lack of hierarchy, staying non-promotional, and non-professional, while also unaffiliated, non-denominational, apolitical and free to all. As of 2021, AA estimated it is active in 180 countries with an estimated membership of nearly two million—73% in the United States and Canada.

Akron is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. It is the fifth-most populous city in Ohio with a population of 190,469 at the 2020 census, while the Akron metropolitan area has an estimated 702,000 residents. It is located on the western edge of the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau in Northeast Ohio about 40 miles (64 km) south of downtown Cleveland.

William Griffith Wilson, also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W., was an American businessman who conceived and co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), with fellow co-founder Bob Smith.