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  1. 23 June 1894 Founding of the International Olympic Committee 0 cit. no story Pierre de Coubertin's congress at the Sorbonne votes to revive the Olympic Games and creates the International Olympic Committee, leading to the first modern Games in Athens in 1896. culture / diplomacy / society ●●●
  2. 21 May 1904 Founding of FIFA 0 cit. no story Seven European football associations found the Fédération Internationale de Football Association in Paris to govern international football. It went on to create the World Cup in 1930. culture / diplomacy / society ●●●
  3. 26 June 1906 Founding of the International Electrotechnical Commission 0 cit. no story Engineers from thirteen countries found the IEC in London, with Lord Kelvin as first president, to standardize electrical technology. It remains the global standards body for electrotechnology. diplomacy / technology ●●
  4. 15 June 1909 Founding of the Imperial Cricket Conference 0 cit. no story Representatives of England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's to found the Imperial Cricket Conference, the body that became today's International Cricket Council. culture / diplomacy / society ●●
  5. 17 July 1912 Founding of World Athletics 0 cit. no story National federations meeting after the Stockholm Olympics found the International Amateur Athletic Federation to govern track and field and ratify world records. It is now known as World Athletics. culture / diplomacy / society ●●
  6. 28 July 1919 Founding of the International Astronomical Union 0 cit. no story Astronomers found the IAU at a constitutive assembly in Brussels to coordinate astronomy worldwide. It is the recognized authority for naming celestial bodies. diplomacy / science ●●
  7. 5 October 1921 Founding of PEN International 0 cit. no story Writer Catharine Amy Dawson Scott founds the first PEN Club at a London dinner, with John Galsworthy as president. It grew into PEN International, the worldwide association of writers defending free expression. culture / diplomacy ●●
  8. 7 September 1923 Founding of Interpol 0 cit. no story Police officials from 20 countries found the International Criminal Police Commission in Vienna to coordinate cross-border crime fighting. Rebuilt after the Second World War, it became Interpol, based in Lyon. diplomacy / politics / society ●●●
  9. 20 July 1924 Founding of FIDE 0 cit. no story Chess federations meeting in Paris found the Fédération Internationale des Échecs, the world chess federation that governs international competition and awards titles such as grandmaster. culture / diplomacy ●
  10. 23 February 1947 Founding of the International Organization for Standardization 0 cit. no story ISO begins operations in Geneva after delegates from 25 countries agreed in London in 1946 to create a new body to unify industrial standards worldwide. diplomacy / science / technology ●●●
  11. 4 April 1947 Founding of the International Civil Aviation Organization 0 cit. no story The Chicago Convention of 1944 enters into force, creating ICAO in Montreal to set worldwide standards for civil aviation safety and navigation. diplomacy / technology ●●●
  12. 17 March 1948 Founding of the International Maritime Organization 0 cit. no story A UN maritime conference in Geneva adopts the convention creating the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization, now the IMO, the UN agency for shipping safety and marine pollution. It first met in London in 1959. diplomacy / economy / technology ●●
  13. 23 March 1950 Founding of the World Meteorological Organization 0 cit. no story The WMO Convention enters into force, turning the old International Meteorological Organization into an intergovernmental UN agency for weather, climate and water. The date is marked as World Meteorological Day. diplomacy / science ●●
  14. 29 September 1954 Founding of CERN 0 cit. no story The convention of the European Organization for Nuclear Research enters into force, creating a shared physics laboratory near Geneva. CERN became the world's leading particle physics center and the birthplace of the World Wide Web. diplomacy / science ●●●
  15. 30 May 1975 Founding of the European Space Agency 0 cit. no story Ten European states merge the earlier ESRO and ELDO organizations into the European Space Agency, headquartered in Paris, pooling Europe's civilian space programs. diplomacy / exploration / science ●●●
  16. November 1988 Founding of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 0 cit. no story The WMO and UNEP establish the IPCC, which holds its first session in Geneva in November 1988, to assess the science of climate change for governments. It shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. diplomacy / environment / science ●●●
  17. 22 September 1989 Founding of the International Paralympic Committee 0 cit. no story Disability sport organizations found the International Paralympic Committee in Düsseldorf as the single global governing body of the Paralympic Games and movement. culture / diplomacy / society ●●
  18. 1 October 1994 Founding of the World Wide Web Consortium 0 cit. no story Tim Berners-Lee founds the W3C at MIT to develop open standards for the World Wide Web, including HTML and CSS. diplomacy / technology ●●
  19. 30 September 1998 Founding of ICANN 0 cit. no story The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is incorporated in California to manage the internet's domain name system and address allocation, taking over functions previously run under US government contract. diplomacy / technology ●●●
  20. 10 November 1999 Founding of the World Anti-Doping Agency 0 cit. no story The IOC and governments establish WADA in Lausanne after the 1998 Tour de France doping scandal, creating a single world authority for anti-doping rules in sport. Its headquarters moved to Montreal in 2002. diplomacy / science / society ●●