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| On her 93rd birthday, Google created a doodle in sepia tone about the ] with the cartoon face of ] ] ] for her excellent contributions in the field of ].<ref>Rosalind Franklin's 93rd Birthday</ref> | On her 93rd birthday, Google created a doodle in sepia tone about the ] with the cartoon face of ] ] ] for her excellent contributions in the field of ].<ref>Rosalind Franklin's 93rd Birthday</ref> | ||
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| On August 14, 2013 ] was observed with a Google Doodle.<ref></ref> The doodle featured ] with K2 mountain in the background and a ], Pakistan's National Animal standing on a hill top. Between the horns of Markhor there is white colored Crescent and Star. In Pakistan's Flag the crescent stands for the bright future and five corners of the star are for five pillars of Islam i.e Tauheed, Salat, Fasting, Zakat and Hajj. | |||
| == References == | == References == | ||
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This list is not meant to be exhaustive. Only Google Doodles that have appeared on the main site or have sufficient media coverage are listed here.See also: Lists of Google Doodles
The Google Doodle is an artistic version of the Google logo. Google Doodles represent events like holidays, anniversaries, or current events. Some of the doodles were limited to Google's country specific home pages while others appeared globally.
January
January 9
The 150th anniversary of London Underground coincided with a Doodle based on the Tube map.
January 16
Google celebrated the 112 birthday of Frank Zamboni with an interactive doodle that allowed the player to ride a zamboni to clean an ice rink.
January 26
- Google celebrated India's 64th Republic Day, which marks the anniversary of adoption of the Constitution of India. The doodle featured an image of India's national animal; tiger, which appears to be glaring at you, while India Gate appears at the lower left corner. The name "Google" is featured as stripes on the tiger's body.
- Australia Day was also celebrated on January 26 with a Google doodle consisting of a night scene with gum trees and stars. The second "g" in Google was formed by a kangaroo with a joey in the pouch waving the national flag.
February
February 4
- Google paid tribute to the Canadian penny being withdrawn from circulation. The doodle featured the Google logo coloured entirely in copper, with the first "O" being replaced by a rotating penny.
- Google also celebrated Sri Lanka's Independence Day with a doodle that features the Google logo with some colors of the Flag of Sri Lanka and Sri Lanka's lion interpolated with the first G.
February 6
Google celebrated the 100 birthday of Mary Leakey, a British archaeologist and anthropologist, who discovered the first fossilized links between apes and humans, in Africa. The doodle featured Leakey working at an excavation site marked with footprints, where she is surrounded by archaeological tools like brush, leaf-and-square and trowel, and two dogs playing around the site.
February 8
Google India celebrated 72 birthday of Jagjit Singh, a prominent Indian Ghazal singer, songwriter and musician. The doodle featured Jagjit, with his hands on the harmonium, as the logo appears partly hidden behind him.
February 14
Google celebrated Valentine's Day and also the 154th birthday of an American engineer George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. in a single doodle. The doodle was interactive, with a heart shape button in the middle, which when clicked, rotates the two ferris at both of its side.
February 15
A doodle celebrating the fly-by of asteroid 2012 DA14 was withdrawn after a meteor injured more than 1000 people in Russia, although the two events were unrelated.
February 19
Google celebrated the 540th birthday of Nicolaus Copernicus with an animated doodle of Copernicus's model of the solar system.
February 22
Google UK celebrated the 88th birthday of Edward Gorey with a series of drawings in his distinct style.
March
March 1
Google UK celebrated St. David's Day with a doodle featuring the Welsh Dragon breathing flames that spelled out "Google".
March 4
Google celebrated Miriam Makeba's 81st birthday, by featuring a stylized version of the logo, removing the Catull font and the trademark colors for a whole day.
March 11
Google celebrated Douglas Adams' 61st birthday, by featuring a stylized version of the Heart of Gold's computer console, the spaceship featured in his book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
March 17
Google celebrated Saint Patrick's Day.
March 26
Google Bangladesh celebrated the Bangladesh Independence Day 2013.
March 31
Google's U.S. page commemorated the 86th birthday of Cesar Chavez. This brought some controversy as the date coincided with Easter, which various people, including conservatives and Christians, expressed Google should have celebrated instead; a Google Doodle for Easter last appeared in 2000.
April
April 2
Google commemorated the 366th birthday of Maria Sibylla Merian.
April 15
Google celebrated the 306th birthday of Leonhard Euler; a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist, known for his important discoveries in fields as diverse as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory. He is best known for his work in fluid dynamics, optics and astronomy.
April 16
Google celebrated India's first passenger train. The first train on Indian subcontinent ran over a stretch of 21 miles from Mumbai( called 'Bombay' then) to Thane on April 16, 1853. It is depicted as a chugging train, pluming smoke in the backdrop of palm trees and palace with domes and minarets. One of the two 'O's of Google is replaced by the front of the locomotive engine. Today marks the 160th anniversary of this journey.
April 22
Google celebrated Earth Day with an animated doodle.
April 23
Google UK celebrated St. George's Day with a Doodle.
April 25
Google celebrated Ella Fitzgerald's 96th birthday with a Doodle.
May
May 1
Google remembered International Workers' Day (also known as May Day) with a doodle where worker are at work to build a different version of Google logo.
May 2
Google paid homage to Indian director Satyajit Ray on his 92nd birthday with a doodle featuring the classic Apu-Durga scene from his first and most prominent film Pather Panchali, which was released in 1955.
May 8
Google honored American filmmaker and graphic designer Saul Bass on his 93rd birthday with a video doodle done in the style of his title sequences, accompanied by Dave Brubeck's "Unsquare Dance".
May 12
Google honored mothers around the world on Mother's Day with a doodle showing the way they fulfill their responsibility to every family.
May 23
Google honored the 140th anniversary of the founding of the North-West Mounted Police. What is now the Royal Canadian Mounted Police featured prominently in the Klondike Gold Rush through its policing activities.
May 31
Google honored German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri, inventor of the Petri dish, on his 161st birthday.
June
June 10
Google celebrated the 85th birthday of children's author Maurice Sendak. It features Max the character from Where the Wild Things Are.
June 16
Google honored fathers around the world on Father's Day with a doodle featuring a button which when clicked shows fun illustrations that describes them like that of a slot machine.
June 25
Antoni Gaudi: Google doodles for the great architect, on his 161st birthday.
June 29
Google celebrated the 100th edition of the Tour de France in 2013. The Tour de France is the biggest cycle racing in the world each year.
July
July 1
Google underlined Canada Day with a doodle featuring the Parliament of Canada buildings.
July 2
Google honored the great Chinese herbalist Li Shizhen on his 495th birthday with a doodle with him standing up, holding a herbal plant.
July 3
Google had a sepia-toned doodle of a roach in a hat opening a door, honoring the 130th birthday of Franz Kafka, writer of the short story The Metamorphosis.
July 4
Google's doodle depicted a clickable map of a road trip across the United States, celebrating United States Independence Day. Clicking the doodle shows pictures of a family of dogs making stops at several iconic American Landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, a drive-through tree near Humboldt Redwoods State Park, The Grand Canyon, Mount Rushmore, and the Statue of Liberty.
July 8
Google Doodle for this day was a point-and-click adventure game about an alien that crashes on Earth. This doodle was done to mark the 66th anniversary of the UFO incident in Roswell, New Mexico.
July 13
Google depicted the chess scene from The Seventh Seal for director Ingmar Bergman's 95th birthday.
July 15
Google doodles for Rembrandt van Rijn's 407th birthday. With the doodle, the search engine celebrates the 407th birth anniversary of the artist who made a similar oil painting in 1659 which was called the 'Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar'. Rembrandt van Rijn notable works include The Abduction of Europa, Judas Repentant, Returning the Pieces of Silver and The Artist in His Studio.
July 25
On her 93rd birthday, Google created a doodle in sepia tone about the DNA with the cartoon face of British biophysicist Rosalind Franklin for her excellent contributions in the field of X-ray crystallography.
August
August 14
On August 14, 2013 Independence Day of Pakistan was observed with a Google Doodle. The doodle featured northern areas of Pakistan with K2 mountain in the background and a Markhor, Pakistan's National Animal standing on a hill top. Between the horns of Markhor there is white colored Crescent and Star. In Pakistan's Flag the crescent stands for the bright future and five corners of the star are for five pillars of Islam i.e Tauheed, Salat, Fasting, Zakat and Hajj.
References
- "London underground's 150th birthday celebrated in Google doodle". The Guardian. January 9, 2013. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
- Brown, Matt (January 9, 2013). "Google Doodle Marks 150 Years Of The London Underground". Londonist. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
- "Republic Day India: Google doodles a tiger with Google stripes". New Delhi, India: CNN IBN. January 26, 2013. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
- "Australia Day 2013 - Google Doodle". 3D Car Shows. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
- "Canadian penny honoured with Google Doodle". TheStar.com. February 4, 2013. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
- "Sri Lanka Independence Day 2013".
- Google doodles for Mary Leakey's 100th birthday. Times of India (New Delhi, India). February 6, 2013. Retrieved February 6, 2013
- Mary Leakey, die Frau, die DEN Schädel in Afrika fand. (German) Die Welt (Germany) February 6, 2013. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
- "Jagjit Singh's 72nd birthday: Google posts a doodle on the ghazal maestro". New Delhi, India: CNN IBN. February 8, 2013. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
- "Asteroid Google Doodle withdrawn in wake of Russia meteor strike". The Daily Telegraph. February 15, 2013. Retrieved February 22, 2013.
- Rudd, Andy (February 22, 1925). "Edward Gorey remembered with a Google doodle on his 88th birthday - Mirror Online". Daily Mirror. Retrieved February 22, 2013.
- Ceceri, Kathy (February 22, 2013). "Happy Birthday, Edward Gorey! | GeekMom". Wired. Retrieved February 22, 2013.
- "Google doodle pays tribute to Douglas Adams on 61st birthday". The Times of India. March 11, 2013. Retrieved March 11, 2013.
- http://www.salon.com/2013/03/31/google_celebrates_cesar_chavez_not_easter/
- "Cesar Chavez Honored With Google Doodle On Easter, Sparking Religious Backlash". Huffington Post. March 31, 2013.
- http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/31/google-honors-cesar-chavez-on-easter/
- Google Doodle Honoring Cesar Chavez is Not a Big Shift for Google
- Lachno, James (April 2, 2013). "Maria Sibylla Merian: Scientific illustrator honoured with Google doodle". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved April 2, 2013.
- Williams, Rob. "Google Doodle celebrates Leonhard Euler - Swiss mathematician considered one of the greatest of all time".
- "Google doodle celebrates India's first passenger train". NewYork Daily News. Retrieved April 16, 2013.
- "Google Doodle celebrates India's first passenger train journey". The Economic Times. Retrieved April 16, 2013.
- "Google doodle features India's first passenger train journey". NDTV. Retrieved April 16, 2013.
- Ngak, Chenda (April 22, 2013). "Google commemorates Earth Day 2013 with animation of seasons". CBS News. Retrieved April 22, 2013.
- "Latest Google Doodle flies flag with tribute to St George's Day 2013". The Independent. April 23, 2013.
- Batty, David (April 25, 2013). "Google celebrates Ella Fitzgerald with doodle on 96th birthday". The Guardian. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
- "Labour Day 2013: Google builds a doodle for May Day". IBN Live. May 1, 2013.
- "Google honours Satyajit Ray with a 'Pather Panchali' doodle". IBN Live. May 2, 2013.
- Doodle for Saul Bass' 93rd Birthday. Google on YouTube. May 7, 2013. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
- Rebello, Maleeva (May 31, 2013). "Google doodle celebrates birth of petri dish inventor Julius Richard Petri". DNA India. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
- Google celebrates today the 161st birth anniversary of Antoni Gaudi, the architect of the incomplete Sagrada Familia church of Barcelona.Antoni GaudiRediff
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- Daro, Ishmael N. (July 1, 2013). "Canada Day 2013: Google updates homepage with special 'doodle'". Retrieved July 1, 2013.
- Sean, Austin (July 2, 2013). "Google Doodle celebrates 495th Birthday of Li Shizhen". Retrieved July 2, 2013.
- Roswell's 66th Anniversary
- Rembrandt van Rijn's 407th Birthday
- Rosalind Franklin's 93rd Birthday
