TODAY IN THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY
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The first female African American streetcar conductor in San Francisco ended up becoming a celebrated author and poet, too! Maya Angelou was sixteen when she dropped out of school. She had her heart set on becoming a conductorette because she liked the uniforms. It took two weeks of sitting in the hiring office, refusing to leave until she got an interview, before she wore them down to get the job.
On this day in 1605, the first book of Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes’s magnum opus, Don Quixote, was published. With the full title of El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha, the novel was printed and published by bookseller Francisco de Robles. Cervantes, who had previously fought with the Spanish military, first conceived the idea for Don Quixote in 1597. The story follows Alonso Quixano, who descends into insanity and attempts to revive chivalry by becoming a knight under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He is accompanied on his quest by the simple farmer Sancho Panza, who acts as his squire. The word ‘quixotic’, meaning idealistic and impractical, derives from the deluded character of Don Quixote. Cervantes’s book was an immediate success, being translated and distributed around Europe and the Americas. The second part of Don Quixote was published in 1615, ten years after the first. The novel is considered one of the foundational texts of modern litereature, and has been reinterpreted over the years as a comedy, a social commentary, and a tragedy. Don Quixote remains popular today, frequently hailed as one of the greatest pieces of literature of all time.