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Monthly events in the Global History of Rotary
This
page contains the charter dates of the first 105 clubs, the
first club of each country, and other dates of significance to
Rotary's Global History. If you have a date in history which should be
included and you are an RGHF member, write to us via
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Our thanks to the RI Archives department and other Rotary International
departments for their contributions and cooperation.
RGHF personnel are
Rajiv Sharma, India;
Rachid Karoo,
Mauritius; and
Jack M. B. Selway, USAe the
timelines for
Some of our histories are still
needed, visit
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for the entire list. Any visitor can apply for an account at RGHF/WiKi and
add missing club and district histories.
www.historylibrary.org
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January
Rotary Awareness Month |
1 January
1914
Victoria #90 and
Erie
#91
1
January 1920
Calcutta
1 January 1921 First Club of Europe (except Ireland
and Great Britain)
Madrid
1
January 1922
St. John's
1
January 1991 Rotary Club of Belgrade,
the First Club of Yugoslavia
& Rotary Club of Bratislava,
the First Club of Slovakia
1
January 1995 Rotary Club of Ulaanbaatar,
the First Club of Mongolia
2
January 1924
Rotary Club
of Douglas, Isle of Man
5
January 1968
British Virgin Islands – Tortola
(history
needed)
6
January 1958
Congo, Republic of the – Brazzaville
(history
needed)
9 January 1978
Dubai,
First Club of the United Arab Emerites
11
January 1956
Iraq – Baghdad
(history
needed)
12 January 1921
Rotary
Club of York #1000
13
January 1927 Budapest,
the First Club of Hungary
&
Colombia –
Bogotá
(history
needed)
13
January 1999 Kyrgyzstan –
Bishkek
16 January 1928
Paraguay – Ascunsion
(history
needed)
16 January 1972
Botswana – Gaborone
19 January 1962
Bahamas – Nassau
22 January 1962 Haiti – Port-au-Prince
(history
needed)
23 January 1926
Portugal – Lisbon
23 January 1953 Vietnam – Saigon
(history
needed)
25 January 1949
Tanzania – Dar-es-Salaam
25 January 1956
Swaziland – Manzini
25 January 1964 Liberia – Monrovia
(history
needed)
25 January 1968 Faroe
Islands – Tórshavn (history
needed)
26 January 1927 Rotary Club of Helsinki-Helsingfors,
First Rotary Club of Finland
26
January 1938
Syria – Damascus
27 January 1947 After a many years of ill health,
Rotary founder Paul
Harris dies
29
January 1923
Rotary Club of Amsterdam
30
January 1929
Greece – Athinai
31
January 1953 Namibia – Windhoek
(history
needed)
31
January 1979 Mauritania –
Nouakchott
(history
needed)
January 1943
The "Four
Way Test" was adopted. Herbert J. Taylor wrote this short document
during a business crisis in 1932. Taylor was president, Rotary Club of
Chicago, 1939-40 and Rotary International 1954-55.
January
1972 - The Rotary Club of Upper Manhattan,
New York, USA, proposes an enactment, 72-48, to admit
women to Rotary clubs
to the Council on Legislation. After laughter and discussion, 72-48 is
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February
World Understanding Month |
1 February 1912
St. Joseph #32
1 February 1914
Stockton #92,
Saginaw #93,
Nashville #94,
Savannah #95,
Memphis #96, and
Sacramento
#97
1 February 1915
Atlantic
City, New Jersey
1
February 1919
Uruguay – Montevideo
2
February 1932
Lebanon – Beyrouth
3 February 1910:
Rotary Club of Tacoma,
the eighth of the
Sixteen Clubs prior to the formation of the
National Association
of Rotary Clubs.
5 February 1909:
Rotary Club of Oakland
the Third of the Sixteen
Clubs prior to the formation of the
National Association
of Rotary Clubs.
5 February 1912
San Diego #33
5 February 1969 Cook
Islands – Rarotonga (history
needed)
14 February 1936 Tunisia – Tunis Doyen (history
needed)
16 February 1912
Davenport #34
16 February 1968
Northern Marianas –
Saipan & Togo – Lome (history
needed)
17 February 1961 Reunion – Saint-Denis & Somalia – Mogadiscio
(history needed)
18 February 1910:
Rotary Club of
Minneapolis, the
Ninth of the Sixteen Clubs prior to the formation of the
National Association
of Rotary Clubs.
18 February 1943 Dominican Republic –
Santo Domingo
19 February 1910:
Rotary Club of St. Paul,
the Tenth of the Sixteen
Clubs prior to the formation of the
National Association
of Rotary Clubs.
20 February 1926 Rotary Club
of Budapest, the First Club
of Hungary & Rotary Club of Stockholm, the
First Club of Sweden
20 February 1931 Rotary Club of Hong
Kong -
Chartered 20
February 1931
21 February 1960
Ches Perry,
Rotary's first secretary (1910-1932) died
22 February 1910:
Rotary Club of St. Louis,
the Eleventh of the
Sixteen Clubs prior to the formation of the
National Association
of Rotary Clubs.
23 February 1905:
Rotary Club of Chicago
the First of the Sixteen
Clubs prior to the formation of the
National Association
of Rotary Clubs. First gathering, on
Thursday evening, 23 February 1905 in
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. by attorney
Paul P.
Harris. Young Harris, fresh from a wild five
years as a reporter, actor, cowboy, seaman, granite salesman, fruit picker
and hotel clerk, five years building a successful law practice, then had an
idea. It was regarding observations of success and respect which could come
from organizing professional acquaintances. More years past. He had given
this much thought by the time he and Silvester Schiele walked over to Gus
Loehr's office, in
Room 711 that cold winter night in
1905, almost 9 years from his arrival in Chicago. Several weeks later,
Schiele was elected the first president of Rotary when the meeting was held
in his office. Harris
suggested several names, one of them being "Rotary."
23 February 1910:
Rotary Club of New
Orleans, the Twelfth
of the Sixteen Clubs prior to the formation of the
National Association
of Rotary Clubs.
23 February
1955 Rotary's
Golden Jubilee is celebrated on 23 February with much fanfare in
Chicago. Then on May 29 through June 2,
the 46th Convention again celebrates the 50th year of Rotary and
features a last appearance by Rotary's "First Lady." Following the 50th
anniversary convention (1955), held in Chicago,
Jean Thomson Harris returned to Edinburgh.
23
February 2005 The
Rotary Club of Chicago and Rotary International celebrated the centennial of the first meeting of
four men whose gathering became a
world wide movement.
26 February 1938
Bangladesh – Dhaka
26 February 1962 New
Caledonia – Noumea (history
needed)
28 February 1923
Rotario Club of Rio de
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March
Literacy
Month |
1 March 1912
Omaha
#37 ** Rochester and Columbus were both 5 March. These numbers are in
conflict
1 March 1913
Toronto #55,
Birmingham #56,
Milwaukee #57, and
Indianapolis #58
1 March 1914
Springfield OH #98,
Little Rock #99,
Phoenix #100 (see below),
Scranton #101,
Evansville #102,
Chattanooga #103,
Macon
#104, and
South Bend #105
1
March 1914 The 100th club of the International Association of Rotary Clubs is formed on
1 March in
Phoenix, AZ, USA. However, on
that particular Sunday, and only that one day in March, there was not one
qualified application, but six. There is no record of how #100, of the six
(#100 - 105) was determined from that selection. And, so this website, with
the "Four Way Test" as a guide, has created
/clubs/100+ to recognize the "other five"
clubs of that day.
1
March 1956
Burundi – Bujmburu
(history
needed)
1
March 1992 Albania – Tiranë
(history
needed)
3 March 1923
Rotary Club
of Guernsey
5 March 1912
Rochester #36,
Columbus #38 **
7
March 1962
Barbados – Barbados
8 March 1927 Costa Rica – San Jose
(history
needed)
8
March 1968 Afghanistan – Kabul
(history
needed)
11 March 1929
Israel – Jerusalem &
Egypt – Cairo
11 March 1988 Mayotte – Mayotte
(history
needed)
13 - 19: World Rotaract
Week
15 March 1924
Rotary Club
of Hamilton, Bermuda
17 March 1888. While
Paul is at Princeton, Howard Harris dies March 17th, 1888. Paul's
grandfather had given him a road map for success in life. He had taught him
one thing above all else. That was "Tolerance."
"I
think I inherited something of grandfather's broad spirit of tolerance.
Grandfather was an ambassador of good-will in the eyes of the youngster who
sat at his table during his impressionable years; he never spoke evil of any
man nor of any man's religion or politics."
(My Road to
Rotary, by Paul Harris, page 208, copyright Rotary International)
17 March 1963 Sierra Leone -
Freetown (history
needed)
18
March 1960 San Marino – San Marino
19
March 1931
Poland – Warsaw
23
March 1936 Rotary Club of Suva,
Fiji, First Club of the South Pacific Islands
23
March 1955
Turkey – Ankara
23
March 1989 Saint Pierre and
Miquelon – Saint Pierre et Miquelon (history
needed)
26
March 1936 Rotary Club of Suva,
Fiji, First Club of the South Pacific Islands
27 March 1978 - Rotary
International Board of Directors officially revokes the Charter of the
Duarte club. Duarte decides to continue to meet as a quasi-Rotary Club. An X
was placed over the Rotary insignia, new pins were made, and the club was
called: The Ex-Rotary Club of Duarte.
27
March 1987 Solomon Islands –
Honiara, Guadalcanal
(history
needed)
29 March 1944 HIRAM
ELMER SHOREY
a tailor, and one of Rotary's first four members
dies. "Hiram, due to circumstances beyond his control, did not retain his
membership in the club, though he has frequently manifested interest in the
movement and shown that he cherishes the memory of the early days." Paul P.
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April
Magazine
Month |
1 April 1913
Camden #59,
Glasgow #60 first club of
Scotland,
and
Vancouver #61
1
April 1920
Argentina – Buenos Aires
1 April 1921
France – Paris
Japan – Tokyo
Mexico – Ciudad de Mexico
1
April 1992
Cape Verde – Praia
(history
needed)
2
April 1937
Netherlands Antilles – Curacao
5
April 1966 Gibraltar – Gibraltar
(history
needed)
5 April 2005
Dushanbe - First Club of Tajikistan
7
April 1933 Rotary Club of Riga,
the First Club of Latvia
8 April 1929 Rotary Club of Belgrade,
the First Club of Yugoslavia
9 April 1912
Dallas #39
10
April 1992 Ukraine – Kiev
(history
needed)
12 April 1928
Indonesia – Jakarta
13
April
1912
Winnipeg #35 (the club that made Rotary "international")
13 April 1955 Democratic Republic of Congo – Kinshasa
(history
needed)
13 April 1956 Jordan – Amman
13
April 1959 Rotary Club of Kathmandu,
the First Club of Nepal
15 April 1927
El Salvador –
San Salvador
15
April 1957 Cambodia – Phnom-Penh
(history
needed)
17
April 1957 Cameroun –
Douala & Central African Republic – Bangui
(history
needed)
19 Paul
Percy Harris is born, 19 April, 1868, in Racine, Wisconsin to George H. and Cornelia E.
Harris. (There is a
complete, illustrated history timeline on Paul Harris, his family, Rotary
and his career at
www.rotaryfirst100.org/presidents/1910harris/paulharris)
21 April 1921 First Rotary Club of Australia
RC of Melbourne
22
April 1925
Rotary Club
of Ketchikan #2000
23 April 1959
Harry Ruggles, the "Fifth Rotarian" dies
26 April 1911
Cleveland #18
28 April 1931
Rotary Club of Taipei -
The First Club of Taiwan
28 April 1961
Rotary Club of Kano, Kano State,
First Club of Nigeria
28 April 1969 Seychelles – Victoria
(history
needed)
28 April 2010
Representatives at the
2010 Council on Legislation
approved an enactment 28 April to
add a fifth Avenue of Service:
New Generations.
30 April 1911
Philadelphia #19
30 April 1998 Moldova, Republic of – Chisinau
(history
needed)
30 April 2010
Fifth Avenue of Service
added at the 2010 COL. eClubs
became permanent |
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May |
1 May 1912
Superior #40,
Jacksonville #41
1 May 1913
Edinburgh #62,
Austin #63,
Binghamton #64
Dublin #65 first club of Ireland,
Manchester #66,
Belfast #67, and
Albany #68
1
May 1913 Belfast First
club of Northern Ireland
1
May 1996
Turks
and Caicos Islands – Providencials
(history
needed)
4 May 1987 - The
United States Supreme Court affirmed the 1986 ruling of the Court of
Appeals of California in a 7 - 0 opinion
6
May 1980
Greenland – Nuuk
(history
needed)
7
May 1999
Azerbaijan – Baku
(history
needed)
10
May 1957 Rotary Club of Liechtenstein,
the First Club of Liechtenstein
11
May 1925 Rotary Club
of Ciudad de Guatemala, the
First Club of Guatemala
11
May 1954 Rotary Club of Belait, the
First Club of Brunei
13
May 1997
Antarctica – Base Marambio
14-18 May 1978
Tokyo convention, R.I.'s
largest ever, at that time — 39,834 registrants
15
May 1910: Rotary Club of
Kansas City, the
Thirteenth of the Sixteen Clubs prior to the formation of the
National Association
of Rotary Clubs.
15
May 1924
Club
Rotario of Valparaiso
16
May 1929
Nicaragua – Managua
(history
needed)
17 May 1973 Rotary Club of Norfolk
Island,
the
First Club of Norfolk Island
17
May 1978 Andorra – Andorra
(history
needed)
18
May 1977 Lesotho – Maseru
(history
needed)
19
May 1930
Algeria – Algiers
(history
needed) &
Morocco – Casablanca
20 May 1929 Rotary Club of Bucharest,
the First Club of Romania
20
May 1956 Iran – Tehran
(history
needed)
20
May 1957
Uganda – Kampala
20
May 1959 Guyana – Georgetown
20
May 1994
Belarus – Minsk
22-26 May 2004 The largest registration number, to
date, was 43,381 at the 2004
convention in Osaka, Japan
23 May 1918 Gustave
Loehr, of the Rotary's first four members dies.
"Gustave's
personality challenged attention. His was a rare combination, the good in
him easily outweighing the bad. He was a stormy petrel, vehement, impetuous,
imperative, domineering, in one breath; then calm, docile, and lovable in
the next. He was always thought compelling; his words were spoken with
lightning like rapidity, and with such force that men frequently stopped in
the street to look at him. His educational advantages had been limited, but
his English was classical. Where he found the vocabulary with which to give
his furious thoughts expression, was a quandary. Gus' membership was of
brief duration. The feverish ups and downs of business resulted first in his
resignation from membership, and a few years later in his death. Requiescat
in pace. Dear Gus, you rested little while here." Paul P. Harris
23
May 1924 Rotary Club
of Zurich, the
First
Club of Switzerland
23
May 1970 Montserrat – Montserrat
(history
needed)
24
May 1921 - Mrs. Alwilda F. Harvey, wife of the then Chicago
Rotary Club president, stepped into a leadership that brought fifty-nine
Rotary wives together at a luncheon in the Sherman House. Then and there
Alwilda became founder and president of a new organization, first called the
women of Rotary. She made a good speech, and some of it got into the
records. (Neither the men or women of Chicago favoured the RotaryAnn
nomenclature.) Mrs Alwilda F Harvey, wife of Club #1's President went on to
say: "Women through the ages have always practiced 'Service
Above Self' now we have the opportunity to put the slogan into practice
in serving our community". The new movement was chartered in Illinois state
as a non-profit corporation on May 22nd 1923.
24
May 1960 Yemen – Aden
(history
needed)
25
May 1910:
Rotary Club of Portland,
the Fifteenth of the
Sixteen Clubs prior to the formation of the
National Association
of Rotary Clubs.
25
May 1933 Rotary Club
of Sofia, the First Club of
Bulgaria
28
May 1957 French
West Indies –
Pointe-a-Pitre,
First club of Guadeloupe
May 1968 Tonga – Nuku'alofa
(history
needed)
30
May 1955 Malawi
– Blantyre
(history
needed)
31 May 1935 Iceland – Reykjavik
(history
needed)
31 May 1961 Mali –
Bamako |
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June
Fellowship
Month |
1 June 1912
Syracuse #42,
Pueblo #43 (where RGHF was founded), and
Toledo #44
1
June 1913
Richmond #69,
Patterson #70,
Madison #71,
Beaumont #72,
Galveston #73, and
Waco
#74
1 June 1919 First
Rotary Club in Asia is chartered in
Manila.
1 June 1995
Skopje - first Club of Macedonia
1 June 1916
Honolulu
first club of Hawaii (prior to statehood)
1 June 1918
Puerto Rico – San
Juan
1
June 1922
Norway – Oslo
Peru – Lima
1
June 1955
Ethiopia – Addis Ababa
1 June
1977 - Duarte held
its 25th Anniversary Celebration and introduced three
women, Mary Lou
Elliott, Donna Bogart and Rosemary Freitag, as members.
1
June 1984 Burkina Faso –
Ouagadougou
(history
needed)
1
June 1990 Mozambique – Maputo
(history
needed)
1
June 1995 Rotary Club of Belgrade,
the First Club of Yugoslavia
3 June 1911
Pittsburgh #20
3
June 1937
Monaco –
Monaco
4 June 1929
Honduras – Tegucigalpa
(history
needed)
5-9 June 1922 The International Association of Rotary
Clubs is shortened to
Rotary
International.
5-10 June 1927 The first attempt to convert
the Endowment Fund to The Rotary Foundation, led by RI President Harry H.
Rogers at the
Ostend convention was defeated.
5
June 1990
Rotary Club of Moscow,
the
First Club of Russia
6
June 1910:
Rotary Club of Lincoln,
the Fourteenth of the
Sixteen Clubs prior to the formation of the
National Association
of Rotary Clubs.
6 June 1869
Arch Klumph, The Rotary Foundation's founder, was born
7 June 1921
The Rotary movement first came to
New Zealand
when thirty-five men met at a luncheon in the rooms of the Y.M.C.A.,
Wellington, on 7 June 1921. This was a mere sixteen years after the
inaugural Rotary meeting in Chicago.
7-11 1964
The agenda of the Council meeting at
the RI Convention in Toronto contains an enactment for the admission of
women
to Rotary clubs. Convention delegates vote that it be withdrawn
9
June 1978 United Arab Emirates –
Dubai
10
June 1936
Sarawak - Kuching
10
June 1964 Mozambique –
Lourenco Marques
(history
needed)
11
June 1956 Cote
d'Ivorie – Abidjan
(history
needed)
13 June 1872
Donald MacRae, born. He
initially composed “The advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace
through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united
in the ideal of service.” -The
Fourth Object of Rotary. The fifth object/avenue was
approved in 2010, with RGHF members involved.
13
June 1921 - At the International Convention in Edinburgh,
Rotary releases a supplement to the 1920 Proceedings written for all
members, called the 'Manual of Procedure.' It included prohibitions on
women as members of Rotary, or women’s clubs that used the Rotary name. It
permitted a “Ladies’ Auxiliary” for a Rotary club, however.
14 June 1872 Just one day after the birth of Canadian
Donald MacRae,
James Wheeler Davidson,
was born 14 June 1872. An
American Born, Calgary Rotarian who carried Rotary "Around the World"
14
June 1958 Laos – Vientiane
(history
needed)
14
June 1972 Rotary Club of Port Vila,
the First Club of Vanuatu
15
June 1909:
Rotary Club of Seattle
the Fourth of the
Sixteen Clubs prior to the formation of the
National Association
of Rotary Clubs.
15
June 1978
Anguilla – Anguilla
15
June 1990 Micronesia – Pohnpei
(history
needed)
16
June 1947 Rotary Club
of Macau, the First Club of
Macau
16
June 1916
El Club
Rotario de la Habana, capital of Cuba. First club in a non-English speaking
country.
17
June 1958 French Guiana – Cayenne
(history
needed)
18-22 June 1950 - The Rotary Club of
Ahmedabad, India, proposes Enactment 50-10 to the International Convention
in Detroit. It would delete the word MALE from Article III of the Standard
Club Constitution. It was overwhelmingly rejected.
18
June 1959
Jamaica – Kingston
22-26 June 1914 and 1,288 Rotarians make the long
journey to
Houston,
TX, USA. Rotarian Henry Brunier
(RIP 1952) of
San Francisco and his wife "Ann"
boarded a special train for the convention. Since Ann was the only woman on
the train for most of the trip, the other Rotarians began calling her
"Rotary Ann". In Houston the Bruniers met Guy and Ann Gundaker of
Philadelphia.
Soon the name "Rotary Ann"
belonged to Guy's wife as well. The term "Rotary Ann" lasted until
the late 1980's. Gundaker was RIP 1923-24.
22
June 1953 Rotary Club of Ndola,
The First Club of Zambia
22
June 1959 Rotary Club of Papeete,
the First Club of Tahiti
24-28
June 1918
The
Rotary Endowment Fund
stood at $56.50 in the bank with Interest
gained of $1.29 giving a total as at 30th June 1918 of a massive $57.79!
25
June 1909:
Rotary Club of Los
Angeles the Fifth of
the Sixteen Clubs prior to the formation of the
National Association
of Rotary Clubs.
26-30
June 1922 In 1933, Rotary International held its 24th convention in
Boston, MA, USA, from 26-30 June with 8,430 in attendance.
During the convention, a radio broadcast was arranged heard "around the
world" and addressed to "non-Rotarians." Perry introduced Harris who
told his audience "of the air" that if they have "Love of 'men' in their
heart," then they are potential Rotarians! Now you can listen to a
recording of this famous broadcast.
26 June 1945
In 1945, representatives of 50 countries met in San Francisco at the United
Nations Conference on International Organization to
draw up the United
Nations Charter.
Those delegates deliberated on the basis of proposals worked out by the
representatives of China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the
United States at Dumbarton Oaks, United States in August-October 1944. The
Charter was signed on 26 June 1945 by the representatives of the 50
countries. Poland, which was not represented at the Conference, signed it
later and became one of the original 51 Member States.
27
June 1930 Rotary Club of Harare,
the First Club of Zimbabwe
27
June 1938 Sudan – Khartoum
(history
needed)
29 June 1870, Paul's client, friend, and founding member
Silvester Schiele is born. "Silvester Schiele, my most intimate Chicago friend,
and one of the three who first met with me, was made our first president,
and has been a constant member." Paul Harris, from "My Road to Rotary"
29
June 1990 Slovenia – Ljubljana
(history
needed)
30 June 2006
Rotary Club of Peja,
the First Club of Kosova
June
1976
Homer Wood, founder of
RC of San Francisco, and instrumental in the formation of
Oakland,
Seattle, and
Los Angeles, dies in June. |
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July |
1 July: 1884 Raymond
M. Havens, 12th President of Rotary International and a member of the
Rotary Club of Kansas City, Missouri, is born at Fort Scott, Kansas.
The
Rotarian , July 1936, 57; Archives.
1894
Gian Paolo Lang, RI
President 1956-57 and a member of the Rotary Club of Livorno, Italy, is
born.
Archives.
1
July 1913
Fort Worth #75 and
Peoria #76
1921, First Rotary Club of Africa
RC of Johannesburg
1933 District 78, comprising the Clubs in Sweden, is
established. The Rotarian, July 1938, 54.
1974
Dominica – Dominica
(history
needed)
1987 - Sylvia Whitlock begins term as the
first woman club president of
RI and Duarte, California.
1989 - Council on Legislation changes take
effect, and
women
are officially welcomed in Rotary
1995 - Eight
women take office as District Governors. They include Mimi Altman, RC of
Deerfield, IL, Dist. 6440; Gilda Chirafisi, RC of Riverdale, NY, Dist. 7230;
Janet W. Holland, RC of Mineral Wells, TX, Dist 5790; Reba F. Lovrien, RC of
Albuquerque Del Norte, NM, Dist. 5520; Virginia B. Nordby, RC of Ann Arbor
North, MI, Dist. 6380; Donna J. Rapp, RC of Midland Morning, MI, Dist. 6310;
Anne Robertson, RC of Fulton, KY, Dist. 6710; and Olive P. Scott, RC of
Cobleskill, NY, Dist. 7190.
2005,
Carolyn E. Jones, PDG District 5010,
Alaska, USA becomes the first woman trustee of The
Rotary Foundation of Rotary International
2
July:
1910
Jean Thomson and Paul Harris
are married
1984 Carlos
and Maria Aurora Canseco
are introduced to the Rotary Staff. Archives database.
10
July 1939
Senegal – Dakar
11
July 1969
Saint Kitts-Nevis – St. Kitts
13
July 1927 Rotary Club of Guayaquil,
First
Club of Ecuador
14
July 1911, Hartford
#26
**
17 July 1911
Spokane #21 **,
Providence #22,
Harrisburg #23,
Salt Lake City #24,
and Duluth #25
**Spokane
was officially chartered by RI on 17 July 1911 and was given the number 21.
Hartford Connecticut was chartered on 14 July
but was given the number 26. Both clubs use #21. See
archives
18
July 1933 James Wheeler Davidson
died. An American Born, Calgary Rotarian who carried Rotary "Around the
World"
19 July 1865 Dr. Charles H. Mayo, cofounder of the Mayo Clinic and an
honorary
member of the
Rotary Club of Rochester, Minn., USA, was born.
21
July 1953 Rotary Club of Paramaribo,
the First Club of Suriname
23 July 1912
Louisville #45
24
July 1995
Kazakhstan – Almaty
25
July 1910:
Rotary Club of Detroit,
the Sixteenth of the
Sixteen Clubs prior to the formation of the
National Association
of Rotary Clubs.
31
July: 1967
Niger – Niamey
1986 - The Seattle-International District club unanimously votes to
admit
women
July 1912 - Belfast Rotarians vote to refuse membership to
women
July
1914 "All for One, and One for All!" Thus does
Frank L. Mulholland,
the new President of Rotary International, greet Rotarians in
The Weekly
Newsletter. The Rotarian , July 1937, 55.
July
1914
James L. Bomar, Jr. RI
President 1979-80 and a member of the Rotary Club of Shelbyville, Tennessee,
is born. Archives.
July 1918, the endowment
received its first contribution of $26.50 from the Rotary Club of Kansas
City, Missouri, USA, which represented the net proceeds from the 1918
International Convention, which sowed the seeds of the creation of an
"endowment fund for Rotary."
From
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August
Membership and Extension Month
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1
August 1911
Des Moines #27, 1912
Washington, D.C #46,
Dayton #47,
Baltimore #48,
Newark #49 &
London
#50 1913
Grand Rapids #77,
Joliet #78,
Atlanta #79,
Liverpool #80,
Halifax #81,
Hamilton #82,
Springfield
IL #83
2 August 1930 Rotary Club of Tallinn,
the
First Club of Estonia
3 August 1922
Denmark – Copenhagen
5
August 1971
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
6-9
August 1912 the movement
became the International Association of Rotary Clubs in
Duluth, the Zenith
City of the USA.
7
August 1979
Gambia, The – Banjul
10
August 1957 Rotary Club of Port of Spain,
the First Club of Trinidad and Tobago
11 August
1930 Rotary Club of Singapore, Singapore,
- First Club of
Singapore,
11 August 2008
Rotary Club of Kiritimati
12 August 1927
Bolivia – La Paz
15-17 August 1910,
First
Rotary convention
was
held in Chicago, 15-17 August, with sixteen clubs in Rotary. The National
Association of Rotary Clubs was formed. Paul Harris was elected president of
the Association and served two terms.
Chesley R. Perry began 32 years of
service as Secretary, and then General Secretary of Rotary from 1910-1942.
18-21 August of 1913, 930 Rotarians gathered in
Buffalo,
NY, USA for the fourth convention.
The charter process catches up with six UK clubs. See
Ireland-UK
&
Archives
22 August 1911, Rotarian
Frank Collins, introduced what was to become "Service above Self" to
Rotary. At the same convention, "He Profits Most Who Serves Best"
was introduced to the convention. This was the work of
Arthur "Fred"
Sheldon, teacher of business, creator of Rotary's "classification system,"
author of one of our mottos. One of Rotary's most forward "Early Leaders."
22 August 1911
Buffalo #28
22
August 1938 Rotary Club of Nicosia,
the First Club of Cyprus
23
August 1968 Grenada – Grenada
(history
needed)
24
August 1890 Duke Kahanamoku, Olympic
gold medalist was born. Member of
RC of Honolulu
24
August 1909: Rotary Club of
New York City, the
Sixth of the Sixteen Clubs prior to the formation of the
National Association
of Rotary Clubs.
24
August 1929 Rotary Club of Colombo,
the First Club of Sri Lanka
24
August 1968
Libya – Tripoli
29 August 1862 HIRAM
ELMER SHOREY
a tailor, and one of Rotary's first four members is
born. "Hiram, due to circumstances beyond his control, did not retain his
membership in the club, though he has frequently manifested interest in the
movement and shown that he cherishes the memory of the early days." Paul P.
Harris
29
August 1923
Rotary Club
of Brussels - Bruxelles
29
August 1938 Aruba – Aruba
(history
needed)
30
August 1939 Rotary Club of Guam,
the
First Club of Guam
31
August 1999
Bosnia-Herzegovina –
Sarajevo
August 1962 First Interact club was
formed by Melbourne, Florida U.S.A. Rotary Club.
August of 1962, Jean
Harris attends a small reception for the 50th anniversary of RC of
Edinburgh. RI president elect Carl P. Miller was in attendance. RC of
Edinburgh kept in close touch with Mrs. Harris until her death. The club
maintains
signs and remembrances to this day.
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September
New Generations Month
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1 September 1912
Worcester #51
10
September 1972
Rotary Club of Antigua and
Barbuda,
the First Club of Antigua
11 September 1930 Rotary Club of Nairobi,
the First Club of East Africa (Kenya, Uganda and
Tanganyika)
11
September 2002 Rotary Club of Dili,
the First Club of Timor Leste
12 September 1872
Ches Perry,
Rotary's first secretary (1910-1932) was born
12
September 1929
Belize – Belize
13
September 1965 Bahrain – Manama
(history
needed)
16
September 1967
Djibouti – Djibouti
19
September 1957
Papua New Guinea – Port Moresby
23
September 1955 Angola – Luanda
(history
needed)
24
September 1929 Rotary Club of Luxembourg,
the First Club of Luxembourg
28
September 1970
Samoa – Apia
30 September 1929
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October
Vocational Service Month
Annual RGHF
Institute |
1 October 1913,
Terre Haute #84 and
Montreal #85
1 October 1919
Rotary Club of
Shanghai, First Club of
China
1
October 1995
Palau, Republic of – Palau
(history
needed)
2
October 1957
Virgin
Islands – St. Thomas
(history
needed)
3
October 1937
Venezuela – Caracas
(history
needed)
6
October 1967 Malta – Malta
(history
needed)
7 October 1911
Oklahoma City#29
8
October 1927 Rotary Club of Hamburg, the
First Club of Germany
9
October 1965 Benin
– Cotonou
(history
needed)
11
October 2000 RGHF (Rotary Global History
Fellowship) is organized 11
October 2000
18
October 1864, Gus Loehr, one of the first
four to gather in 1905, was born.
19
October 1925
Rotary Club of Vienna, Austria -
First Club of Austria 1925
20
October 1920 First Club in
Japan, RC of Tokyo
24
October 1958 Ghana – Accra
(history
needed)
25 October 1888 Birth of Rotarian and explorer
Admiral Richard E. Byrd
29
October 1969 American Samoa – Pago Pago
(history
needed)
30 October 1913, the first
meeting of British Clubs which would become
RIBI
(Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland)
30 October 1958 Madagascar – Antananarivo
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November
Rotary Foundation Month |
1 November 1912
San Antonio #52,
Houston #53
1 November 1913
Montgomery #86 and
Muskogee #87
1
November 1917
Wales – Cardiff
1 November 1919
Panama – Panama City
1 November 1925
Rotary Club
of Prague, Czechoslovakia
3 November 1910. Rotary
becomes "international" on 3 November 1910 with the "organization" of Rotary
Club of
Winnipeg, Canada. Winnipeg then was
chartered as Club #35 on 13 April 1912 prior to the
Duluth, Minnesota USA convention when
Rotary become the
International Association of Rotary Clubs.
8
November 1881 Jean Thomson Harris,
wife of Rotary International Founder Paul P. Harris was born in Edinburgh,
Scotland.
8
November 1965
Cayman Islands – Grand Cayman
9
November 1963 Jean Thomson
Harris, wife of Rotary International Founder Paul P. Harris dies in
Edinburgh, Scotland. "So here we are at the end of our journey and Jean and
I are sitting at our fireside drinking a cup of tea. One who marries a
Scottish lady must acquire the habit of sitting at the fireside and drinking
black tea and indeed it is a delightful break in the cares and duties of the
day. If the tea is good and the fire burns merrily, one enjoys recreation
and rest. It's a good way to end the day." Paul P. Harris
10 November 1927
Rotary Club of Seoul, The
First Club of South Korea
12
November 1908: Rotary
Club of San Francisco the
Second of the Sixteen
Clubs prior to the formation of the
National Association
of Rotary Clubs. Formed in San
Francisco California, U.S.A. by businessman Homer Wood. Paul
Harris had asked Chicago Rotarian, Manuel Munoz, who was being sent to San
Francisco by his employer, to "spread the word" about Rotary. The timing was
perfect. San Francisco businessmen needed a boost. It has been just two
years since the devastating earthquake of 1906 which nearly destroyed
the city.
13
November 1947
Rotary Club of Mariehamn,
the First Club of Aaland, Finland
13
November 1996 Armenia – Yerevan
(history
needed)
14
November 1934 Rotary Clubs of Kaunas & Vilnius,
the First Clubs of Lithuania
15
November 1923 - Manchester, England, produced an invitation
for Rotary wives to discuss, "Proposed Formation of a Ladies Rotary Club in
Manchester" The idea of a women's Rotary Club was dropped immediately, but,
under the leadership of Mrs. Oliver Golding, the wives adopted the title of
Inner Wheel.
18 November 1911
Wichita #30
18
November 1960 Gabon – Libreville
(history
needed)
24
November 1952
Sabah - Kota Kinabalu
26 November 1910
Rotary Club
of Cincinnati 17
26
November 1985 Guinea – Conakry (history
needed)
27 November 1929
Burma – Rangoon
28
November 1930 Rotary Club of Bangkok,
the
First Club of Thailand
November
1928 - Oklahoma City, Club 29 is responsible for the origin of the Rotary
Ann auxiliary organization, after it was proposed by OKC Rotarian Virgil
Browne's wife, Maimee Lee.
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December
Family Month |
1 December 1912
Sioux City #54
1 December 1913
Reading #88 and
New Castle #89
1
December 1992
Sao Tome & Principe –
Sao Tome
(history
needed)
3
December 1997
Georgia, Republic of – Tbilisi
(history
needed)
4 December 1929
Rotary Club of Seremban,
First Club in
Malaysia
5
December 1957
Chad –
N’Djamena, Chari-Baguirmi
(history
needed)
7
December 1927 Rotary Club of Lahore,
First club of Pakistan
8
December 1965
Comoro
Islands – Moroni
(history
needed)
9 December 1911
Denver #31
14
December 1966
Rwanda – Kigali
(history
needed)
17 December 1945
Silvester Schiele the first
president of a Rotary club
dies (Obituary by the General Secretary)
18
December 1957
Eritrea – Asmara
20 December 1923
Rotary Club of Milano, Italy
27 December 1909:
Rotary Club of Boston,
the Seventh of the
Sixteen Clubs prior to the formation of the
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