1905
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First Rotary club
organized in Chicago,
Illinois, USA
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1908
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Second club formed in
San Francisco,
California, USA
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1910
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First Rotary convention
held in Chicago
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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.)
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1917
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Endowment fund,
forerunner of The Rotary
Foundation, established
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1932
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4-Way Test
formulated by
Chicago Rotarian Herbert
J. Taylor
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1945
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Forty-nine Rotarians
help draft United
Nations Charter in San
Francisco
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1947
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Rotary founder Paul
Harris dies; first 18
Rotary Foundation
scholarships granted
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1962
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First Interact club
formed in Melbourne,
Florida, USA
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1965
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Rotary Foundation
launches Matching Grants
and Group Study Exchange
programs
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1978
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RI's largest convention,
with 39,834 registrants,
held in Tokyo |
1985
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Rotary announces
PolioPlus program to
immunize all the
children of the world
against polio
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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
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1990
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Rotary Club of Moscow
chartered first club in
Soviet Union
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1990-91
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Preserve Planet Earth
program inspires some
2,000 Rotary-sponsored
environmental projects
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1994
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Western Hemisphere
declared polio-free
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1999
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Rotary Centers for
International Studies in
Peace and Conflict
Resolution established
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2000
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Western Pacific declared
polio-free
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2001
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30,000th Rotary club
chartered
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2002
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Europe declared
polio-free; first class
of 70 Rotary Peace
Scholars begin study
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2003
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Rotarians raise more
than US$118 million to
support the final stages
of polio eradication |
