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 |
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