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Rotary Milestones

1905: First Rotary Club Organized in Chicago, Illionois,USA
1908: Second Club formed in Sanfrancisco, California, USA
1910: First Rotary Convention held in Chicago
1912: The Rotary Club of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, become the first club outside the United States to be officially chartered. (The Club was formed in 1910.)
1917: Endowment fund, forerunner of The Rotary Foundation, established
1932: 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 scholarship 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 membership to women worlwide; Rotary clubs chartered in Budapest, Hungary, and Warsaw, Poland, for first time in almost 50 years
1990: Rotary club of Moscow chartered first club in Soviet Union

1990-91:

Preserve Planet Earth program inspire 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
2000: Western Pacific declared polio-free
2001: 30,000th Rotary club chartered
2002: Europe declared polio-free, first class of 70 Rotary Peace Scholars begin study
2003: Rorarians raise more than US$ 118 million to support the final stages of polio eradication