The result of AA's most recent study in 2007 were promising. According to AA, 33 percent of the 8,000 North American members it surveyed had remained sober for over 10 years. Twelve percent were sober for 5 to 10 years; 24 percent were sober 1 to 5 years; and 31 percent were sober for less than a year.
oÃate, juan de (ca. 1550â1626). Juan de OÃ±ate, explorer and founder of the first European settlements in the upper Rio Grande valley of New Mexico, son of CristÃ³bal de OÃ±ate and Catalina de Salazar, was born around 1550, most likely in the frontier settlement of Zacatecas, Mexico.
Born: c. 1496. Jerez de los Caballeros, Spain. Died: May 21, 1542. Ferriday (now in Louisiana in the United States) Spanish explorer. The Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto participated in the conquests of Nicaragua (in Middle America) and Peru (in South America). De Soto explored parts of nine states in the southeastern part of the United States, and he was the first white man to cross the Mississippi River.