This Week in History Part 1 Nov. 26-Dec. 2

This Week in History
Week of Nov. 26-Dec. 2

Reorder

Put the following in chronological order from oldest to newest

• Women vote in a national election for the first time, in the New Zealand general election

• Through the will drawn up by Alfred Nobel, the Swedish chemist who invented dynamite, the Nobel Prizes are established

• The world’s first moving assembly line debuts at a Ford factory in Highland Park, Michigan

• American aviator Richard E. Byrd flies over the South Pole

• Rosa Parks refuses to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger and is arrested, sparking a 381-day bus boycott led by Martin Luther King, Jr.

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​Add these to the This Week in History section of your composition book:

• Nov. 27, 1895 – Through the will drawn up by Alfred Nobel, the Swedish chemist who invented dynamite, the Nobel Prizes are established

• Nov. 28, 1893 – Women vote in a national election for the first time, in the New Zealand general election

• Nov. 29, 1929 – American aviator Richard E. Byrd flies over the South Pole

• Dec. 1, 1913 – The world’s first moving assembly line debuts at a Ford factory in Highland Park, Michigan

• Dec. 1, 1955 – Rosa Parks refuses to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger and is arrested, sparking a 381-day bus boycott led by Martin Luther King, Jr.