1905
| First Rotary Club Organized in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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1908
| Second Club formed in San Francisco, CA, USA
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1910
| First Rotary convention held in Chicago, Ill.
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1912
| The Rotary Club of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, becomes the first club outside the United States to be officially chartered. (The club formed in 1910)
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1917
| Endowment fund, forerunner of The Rotary Foundation, established
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1932
| 4-way Test formulated by Chicago Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor
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1945
| 49 Rotarians help draft United Nations Charter in San Francisco
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1947
| Rotary founder Paul Harris dies; first 18 Rotary Foundation scholarships granted
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1962
| First Interact club formed in Melbourne, Florida, USA
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1965
| Rotary Foundation launches Matching Grants and Group Study Exchange Programs
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1978
| RI's largest convention, 39,834 registrants, held in Tokyo
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1985
| Rotary announces Polio Plus program to immunize all the children of the world against Polio
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1989
| 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
| Rotary Club of Moscow chartered first club in Soviet Union
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1990-91
| Preserve Planet Earth program inspires some 2,000 Rotary-sponsored environmental projects
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1994
| Western Hemisphere declared polio-free
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1999
| Rotary Centers for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution established
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2000
| Western Pacific declared polio free
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2001
| 30,000th Rotary club chartered
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2002
| Europe declared polio-free; first class of 70 Rotary Peace Scholars begin study
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2003
| Rotarians raise more than US$118 million to support the final stages of polio eradication
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