1905 • |
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First Rotary club organized in Chicago, Illinois, USA |
1908 • |
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Second club formed in San Francisco, California, USA |
1910 • |
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First Rotary convention held in Chicago, Illinois, USA |
1912 • |
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The Rotary Club of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, becomes the first club outside the United States to be officially chartered. (The club was formed in 1910.) |
1917 • |
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Endowment fund, forerunner of The Rotary Foundation, established |
1932 • |
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4-Way Test formulated by Chicago Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor |
1945 • |
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Forty-nine Rotarians help draft United Nations Charter in San Francisco |
1947 • |
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Rotary founder Paul Harris dies; first 18 Rotary Foundation scholarships granted |
1962 • |
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First Interact club formed in Melbourne, Florida, USA |
1965 • |
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Rotary Foundation launches Matching Grants and Group Study Exchange programs |
1985 • |
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Rotary announces PolioPlus program to immunize all the children of the world against polio |
1989 • |
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Council on Legislation opens Rotary membership to women worldwide; Rotary clubs chartered in Budapest, Hungary, and Warsaw, Poland, for first time in almost 50 years |
1990 • |
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Rotary Club of Moscow chartered first club in Soviet Union |
1990-91 • |
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Preserve Planet Earth program inspires some 2,000 Rotary-sponsored environmental projects |
1994 • |
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Western Hemisphere declared polio-free |
1999 • |
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Rotary Centers for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution established |
2000 • |
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Western Pacific declared polio-free |
2001 • |
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30,000th Rotary club chartered |
2002 • |
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Europe declared polio-free; first class of 70 Rotary Peace Scholars begin study |
2003 • |
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Rotarians raise more than US$118 million to support the final stages of polio eradication |
2004 • |
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RI’s largest convention with 45,381 attendees, held in Osaka, Japan |
2005 • |
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Rotary Celebrates centennial in Chicago, Illinois, USA |
