Historic Milestones
in Rotary History

1905 - First Rotary club meeting in Chicago, Illinois, USA

1932 - 4-Way Test formulated by Chicago Rotarian Herbert J.
Taylor

1947 - Rotary founder Paul Harris dies

1985 - Rotary announces PolioPlus program to immunize all the
children of the world against polio

1994 - Western Hemisphere declared polio-free

2000 - Western Pacific declared polio-free

2001 - 30,000th Rotary club chartered