1905 |
First Rotary club organized in Chicago,
Illinois, USA |
1908 |
Second club formed in San
Francisco, California, USA |
1910 |
First Rotary convention held in Chicago |
1912 |
First club outside
US formed in Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada |
1917 |
Endowment fund,
forerunner of The Rotary Foundation, established |
1933 |
4-Way Test
formulated by Chicago
Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor |
1945 |
Forty-nine Rotarians help draft
United
Nations Charter in San
Francisco |
1947 |
Rotary founder Paul
Harris dies; first 18 Rotary Foundation scholarships granted |
1962 |
First Interact club formed in
Melbourne,
Florida, USA |
1965 |
Rotary Foundation
launches Matching Grants and Group Study Exchange programs |
1978 |
RI's largest convention, with 39,834 registrants, held in Tokyo |
1985 |
Rotary announces
PolioPlus program to immunize all the children of the world against
polio |
1989 |
Council on
Legislation opens Rotary to women; Rotary clubs chartered in Budapest,
Hungary, and Warsaw,
Poland, for first time in almost 50 years |
1990 |
Rotary Club of Moscow
charted first club in Soviet Union |
1990-91 |
Preserve Planet
Earth program inspires some 2,000 Rotary-sponsored environmental
projects |
1994 |
Western Hemisphere declared
polio-free |
1999 |
Rotary Centers for International Studies in Peace and
Conflict Resolution established |