May 1, 2012
Worker's Day/Labor Day 2012
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May 1, 2012
Worker's Day/Labor Day 2012
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Jun 21, 2012
Yuri Kondratyuk's 115th Birthday
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Yuri Kondratyuk was a self-educated mechanic who, 50 years before lunar flights, foresaw ways of reaching the moon, calculating the best means of achieving a lunar landing. His theory of the gravitational slingshot trajectory to accelerate a spacecraft, known today as the "Kondratyuk Route", was eventually adopted by the engineers of the Apollo program for American lunar expeditions.
His personal story is also fascinating, though ultimately heartbreaking. Yuri's developing theories on space travel were happening during a time when such pursuits were considered "absurd", and consequently were prohibited by the ruling government of his time. Because of this, his work – and much of his life – was shrouded in secrecy. Even his real name was a secret [it was Aleksandr Gnatovich Shargei]. Fortunately, history has been much kinder to his legacy, and today he is considered an early pioneer of space exploration. For his doodle, we felt that while it is not quite the real thing, it was only right to show an aspirational Kondratyuk gazing about – and amongst – the stars.
Jul 25, 2012
Jaakonpäivä
https://www.google.com/logos/2012/jaakonpaiva-12-hp.jpg
The cold stone thrown by Jaak on July 25 is one of the old still known and annually repeated climatic "truths." Jaakko's Name Day is currently at a time when air cooling is starting to show up in long-term statistics. After that we move on to the autumn summer. However, the decline in surface water temperatures will not begin until early August.
Aug 27, 2012
First Day of School 2012 [Israel]
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Sep 11, 2012
Teachers’ Day 2012 [Argentina]
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Sep 15, 2012
Adolfo Bioy Casares' 98th Birthday
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Adolfo Bioy Casares was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, diarist, and translator. He was a friend and frequent collaborator with his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges, and is the author of the fantastic fiction novel The Invention of Morel.
Sep 15, 2012
Costa Rica Independence Day 2012
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Sep 15, 2012
Guatemala Independence Day 2012
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Sep 15, 2012
Nicaragua Independence Day 2012
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Sep 15, 2012
Honduras Independence Day 2012
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Sep 15, 2012
El Salvador Independence Day 2012
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Sep 16, 2012
Mexico Independence Day 2012
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Sep 18, 2012
202nd anniversary of the First Government Assembly in Chile
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Sep 23, 2012
Saudi Arabia National Day 2012
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Sep 28, 2012
David Unaipon's 140th Birthday
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David Ngunaitponi was an Aboriginal Australian man of the Ngarrindjeri people, a preacher, inventor and author. Unaipon's contribution to Australian society helped to break many Aboriginal Australian stereotypes, and he is featured on the Australian $50 note in commemoration of his work. He was the son of preacher and writer James Unaipon
August 8, 2012
Basketball 2012
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http://www.google.com/doodles/basketball-2012
With the addition of a video game console in our home, my brothers and I used to spend as many hours playing sports in front of the tv as we did outside.
The good ol' fashion button mashin' of my youth was no small part of the inspiration for the 2012 Summer Games interactive doodles. [In fact, collaborator Marcin Wichary even wired up these doodles with the then newly released Gamepad API, allowing users to mash actual buttons.]
To my great joy, over onebillion games were played on the Google homepages in this four-day interactive doodle run. [Besides this basketball game, there're doodles for hurdles, slalom canoe, and soccer/football.] With each game presenting an opportunity to share your high score, I'm sure quite a few brothers, sisters, friends, etc. were able to play, compete, and grow closer with thesehttp://www.google.com/doodles/basketball-2012
Aug 10, 2012
Soccer 2012
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http://www.google.com/doodles/soccer-2012
Aug 11, 2012
Rhythmic Gymnastics 2012
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Aug 12, 2012
Closing Ceremony 2012
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Aug 13, 2012
Cassiano Branco's 115th Birthday
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Cassiano Viriato Branco was a Portuguese architect. He is one of the most important architects of the first half of the 20th century in Portugal. Some of his projects include the Coliseu do Porto, Hotel Vitória and the Portugal dos Pequenitos theme park.
Aug 23, 2012
Alexander Grin's 132th Birthday
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Aleksandr Stepanovich Grinevsky was a Russian writer, notable for his romantic novels and short stories, mostly set in an unnamed fantasy land with a European or Latin American flavor [Grin's fans often refer to this land as Grinlandia]. Most of his writings deal with sea, adventures, and love.
Aug 26, 2012
Rhazes' 1147th Birthday
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Abū Bakr Muhammad Zakariyyā Rāzī [also known by his Latinized name Rhazes] , was a Persian polymath, physician, alchemist, philosopher, and important figure in the history of medicine. He also wrote on logic, astronomy and grammar.
Sep 8, 2012
46th Anniversary of Star Trek's 1st Broadcast
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http://www.google.com/doodles/46th-a...-1st-broadcast
OK, I admit it, I am a die-hard Trekkie. I grew up watching endless reruns of Star Trek, my imagination completely immersed in Gene Roddenberry’s brilliant creation.
Today’s Star Trek doodle is, and Mr. Spock said it best, “Fascinating.” Built using modern web technologies, this beautiful, interactive, multi-scene doodle takes all of us... where no one has gone before. Every scene has hidden surprises you absolutely have to discover for yourself, especially the fate of the Redshirt. A team of outstanding designers and engineers, and numerous Star Trek fans at Google, got really creative with this one.
Working on search at Google has brought me ever so close to realizing my childhood dream of turning science fiction into reality; and Star Trek has played a special role in my journey. Yes! The destiny of search is to become the Star Trek computer, a perfect assistant by my side whenever I need it.
I hope you enjoy today’s magical doodle, and to all my fellow Trekkies, I say... live long and prosper.
Sep 10, 2012
Teachers' Day 2012 [China]
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Sep 24, 2012
Howard Florey's 114th Birthday
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OMHoward Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the development of penicillin.
Although Fleming received most of the credit for the discovery of penicillin, it was Florey who carried out the first ever clinical trials of penicillin in 1941 at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford on the first patient, a police constable from Oxford. The patient started to recover, but subsequently died because Florey was unable, at that time, to make enough penicillin. It was Florey and Chain who actually made a useful and effective drug out of penicillin, after the task had been abandoned as too difficult.
Florey's discoveries, along with the discoveries of Fleming and Ernst Chain, are estimated to have saved over 200 million lives, and he is consequently regarded by the Australian scientific and medical community as one of its greatest figures. Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, said, "In terms of world well-being, Florey was the most important man ever born in Australia."
Sep 30, 2012
Chuseok 2012
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Chuseok [literally "Autumn eve", also known as hangawi ] is a major harvest festival and a three-day holiday in both North and South Korea celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar on the full moon. Like many other harvest festivals around the world, it is held around the autumn equinox, i.e. at the very end of summer or in early autumn. It is one of the biggest traditional holidays.
October 3, 2015
German Reunification Day 2015
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Oct 4, 2015
Google Gameday Doodle #4
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September 13, 2015
Google Gameday Doodle #1
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http://www.google.com/doodles/google-gameday-doodle-1
Football season is here and the little g has always dreamed of being a star player. But does he have what it takes to make the team? Check back next week as the story continues!
September 27, 2015
Google Gameday Doodle #3
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There are a few ways to turn heads on a football field. Some get looks because they throw a great deep ball, some have soft hands; some can run the 40-yard dash under 4.5 seconds. Another way is to dump a bucket of ice cold water on your coach’s head. Maybe they’ll cut the kid some slack--it is little g’s birthday, after all.
Sep 20, 2015
Google Gameday Doodle #2
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Oct 13, 2015
Yps Magazine's 40th anniversary
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Forty years ago today, Yps Magazine published its first comic. Or, perhaps more memorably, it was on this day forty years ago that some Germans opened Yps Magazine’s first “gimmick”. The comic itself was replete with tales of mystery, peril, and adventure, but many would agree that the most irresistible surprise was the toy that came with each new edition. They ranged from the simple [spinning tops] to the sophisticated [kits to build functioning radios], and often the slightly bizarre: one common and beloved gimmick was a package of Brine Shrimp eggs that young readers were encouraged to hatch and grow themselves. Today’s Doodle hearkens back to the simpler days of childhood, when the month’s most nagging uncertainty was the prize awaiting young readers beneath Yps Magazine’s plastic cover.
Mar 8, 2014
International Women's Day 2014
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http://www.google.com/doodles/intern...omens-day-2014 [interactive]
Women have historically been underrepresented in almost all fields: science, school curricula, business, politics — and, sadly, doodles. In addition to our continued effort for doodle diversity and inclusion, this truly International Women’s Day doodle features a host of over a 100 inspiring women from around the world.
Here is the full list [in order of appearance]:
Cee Chatpawee, TV host, IT Princess, Thailand
Chinaza Godwin Christiana, Student, Nigeria
Easkey Britton, Surfer and the first woman to surf in Iran, PhD and doctoral candidate, Ireland
Rahimah Yussof, Developer group leader, Brunei
Chen Yuhong, School teacher, China
Naho Okamoto, Jewelry designer, Japan
Mary Kom, Five-time World Boxing champion, India
Funlayo Adewale, Canteen owner, Nigeria
Jennifer Luo & Yi-hsin Chen, Mothers to be, Taiwan
Alifiyah Ganjee, Developer group leader, Kenya
Karnataka State Home Guard, India
Ana Cecilia Castillo, Developer group leader, Guatemala
Rivka Carmi, President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Camila Batmanghelidjh, Founded the place2be and Kids Company, caring for 17,000 children, UK/Iran
Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of Lithuania
Sarah Sechan, TV personality and entertainer, Indonesia
Shoko Uemura, Under-23 Women's Football Team member, Japan
Janet Mock, Trans woman rights activist and author, USA
Harusoga Fujima, Professional Nihon Buyo dancer [traditional dance], Japan
Mara Gabrilli, Congresswoman & Brazil's spokesperson for people with disabilities, Brazil
Maria da Penha, Women's rights advocate, named the law protecting women from domestic violence, Brazil
Viviane Senna, Entrepreneur and founder of NGOs, Brazil
Marta Silva, Awarded multiple times by FIFA golden ball as best female soccer player in the world, Brazil
Students, Guatemala
Maia Sandu, Minister of education, Moldova
Chamki, Adventurous and inquisitive schoolgirl muppet, India
Christine Van Broeckhoven, Molecular biologist, Belgium
Tanha Islam, Aspiring engineer, Bangladesh
Jake Feinler, Former head of Network Information Center at Stanford and Internet Hall of Fame member, USA
Iryna Velychko, Galyna Korniyenko & Marina Derkach, Developer group organizers, Ukraine
Marisa Millán, Proud grandma, Spain
Noelle Wenceslao, Janet Belarmino & Carina Dayondon, First Filipinas to climb Mount Everest, Philippines
Clarisse Reille, Managing Director of French Professional Committee for Apparel Economy Development, France
Gesche Joost, Professor of Design Research and one of Germany's "100 masterminds of tomorrow", Germany
Dora, Explorer
Nogah Dufresne, Multinational baby, France/Israel
Tooba Shaikh, Aspiring Developer, Pakistan
Katelyn Donnelly, Executive Director of the Pearson Affordable Learning Fund, USA/UK
Catherine Koo, Chairlady of United Christian College Parents Teachers Association, Hong Kong
Roba Al Assi, Blogger, Jordan
SOS Lambrate, Ambulance volunteers, Italy
Camila Bernal Villegas, Director of the CRAN Foundation and cancer survivor, Colombia
Malala Yousafzai, Education activist, Pakistan
Ashaji, Holds a Guinness World Record as most recorded artist in music history, India
Nonna Grishaeva, Actress, comedian and singer, Russia
Ndileka Xameni, Runs an orphanage, South africa
İpek Hanım's Farm, Business woman turned farmer and her village , Turkey
Prof. Jacqueline A. Oduol, Gender expert fighting for Women's and children's rights, Kenya
Martha Debayle, Radio personality, named one of the 50th most powerful women in Mexico by Forbes, Mexico
Alenka Godec, One of the most prominent jazz and pop singers in Slovenia, Slovenia
Zakeeya Patel, Actress, dancer and winner of South Africa's Strictly Come Dancing 2013, South Africa
Astrid Sartiasari, Singer, Indonesia
Jenny Chan, Ella Wong & Ching Hoi Man, Spokeswomen, Hong Kong
Isadora Faber, Education activist, 14 years old, Brazil
Refiloe Khaoli, Copyrighter, South Africa
Serena Gu, Grace Liang & Sharon Tam, University start-ups advocates, Hong Kong
Anne Geddes, Renowned photographer and women's advocate, Australia
Cecilia Chung, Social justice & human rights activist, HK/US
Diaa Elyaacoubi, Serial entrepreneur, named Entrepreneur of the Year 2004, France
Ros Juan, Entrepreneur and Social advocate, Philippines
Funmi Victor-Okigbo, Events Production Designer, Nigeria
Chen Junlan and QiQiGe, Office workers, China
Tarryn Tomlinson, Inspiring quadriplegic working with disadvantaged youth, South Africa
Zahira Asmal, Founder of Design South Africa, South Africa
Foluso Olaniyan, Agricultural pioneer, Nigeria
Jirawadee Sudta, Awarded National Excellent Youth in law and protection of children's rights, Thailand
Thanks to our amazing editor Morgan Stiff, Zap Mama for the wonderful music, and all the women and girls who participated.
Mar 1, 2014
St. David's Day 2014
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Feb 27, 2014
Dominican Republic Independence Day 2014
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Feb 26, 2014
Doodle 4 Google Canada
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Jan 27, 2014
Doodle 4 Google 2013 - New Zealand winner
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Jan 26, 2014
India Republic Day 2014
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Jan 26, 2014
Australia Day 2014 / Doodle 4 Google 2013 winner
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