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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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First club outside
US formed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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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
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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 to women; 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 |
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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2004 |
RI’s largest convention with 45,381 attendees, held in Osaka, Japan |
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2005 |
Rotary Celebrates centennial in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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