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Apr 24, 2014
Jan Karski's 100th Birthday [born 1914]
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Jan Karski was a Polish soldier, resistance-fighter, and diplomat during World War II. He is known for having acted as a courier in 1940–43 to the Polish Government-in-Exile and to Poland's Western Allies about the situation in German-occupied Poland. He was reporting about the state of Poland, in which there were many competing factions in the resistance, and also about Germany's destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and its operation of extermination camps on Polish soil that were murdering Jews, Poles, and others.
On 2 June 1982, Yad Vashem recognised Jan Karski as Righteous Among the Nations. A tree bearing a memorial plaque in his name was planted that same year at Yad Vashem's Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations in Jerusalem.
He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama post-humously.
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Apr 26, 2014
King's Day 2014
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/YX...UcH6RZYoD=s660
Koningsdag or King's Day is a national holiday in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Celebrated on 27 April, the date marks the birth of King Willem-Alexander. Until the abdication of Queen Beatrix in 2013, the holiday was known as Koninginnedag or Queen's Day and was celebrated on 30 April.
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Apr 27, 2014
South Africa Freedom Day
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Dy...Epv7gyB2U=s660
Freedom Day is a public holiday in South Africa celebrated on 27 April. It celebrates freedom and commemorates the first post-apartheid elections held on that day in 1994. The elections were the first non-racial national elections where everyone of voting age of over 18 from any race group, including foreign citizens permanently resident in South Africa, were allowed to vote. Previously, under the apartheid regime, non-whites in general had only limited rights to vote while black South Africans had no voting rights whatsoever.
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Apr 28, 2014
Cinecittà's 77 anniversary
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/b1...MbcD0CcFy=s660
Cinecittà Studios [ Italian for Cinema City Studios], is a large film studio in Rome, Italy. With an area of 400,000 square metres [99 acres], it is the largest film studio in Europe, and is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were constructed during the Fascist era as part of a plan to revive the Italian film industry.
Filmmakers such as Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Sergio Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and Mel Gibson have worked at Cinecittà. More than 3,000 movies have been filmed there, of which 90 received an Academy Award nomination and 47 of these won it. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made there led to Rome being dubbed "Hollywood on the Tiber."
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Apr 29, 2014
Ustad Alla Rakha's 95th Birthday
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/v7...YP_U9Irxr=s660
Ustad Allarakha Qureshi, popularly known as Alla Rakha, was an Indian tabla player who specialized in Hindustani classical music. He was a frequent accompanist of sitar player Ravi Shankar and was largely responsible for introducing Tabla to the western audience.
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Apr 29, 2014
Gerard Oury's 95th Birthday
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Wp...TdhhQOYxQ=s660
Gérard Oury was a French film director, actor and writer.
While the uniforms seem to indicate these are members of a dark and sinister army, they are in fact the famous comedic duo, Louis de Funes and Bourvil, cast as ordinary Frenchmen disguised in German uniforms in Gerard Oury's best-known work, La Grande Vadrouille.
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May 1, 2014
Mahmoud Shokoko's 102nd Birthday
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/mD...ylgm5PJsA=s660
Mahmoud Shokoko was an Egyptian actor and artist. He is best known for his puppet character "Aragouzsho".
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May 2, 2014
Ichiyo Higuchi's 142nd Birthday
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/xv...KI1AnCDzs=s660
Natsu Higuchi was a Japanese writer from the Meiji Period. Higuchi was unique among her peers in that her writing was based on Japanese rather than Western models
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May 7, 2014
Olympe de Gouges's 266th Birthday
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Yn...ZyUmM_xrA=s660
Olympe de Gouges was a French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism reached a large audience in various countries.
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May 9, 2014
Sophie Scholl's 93rd Birthday
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ir...3u8rWVdV-=s660
Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany.
She was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich with her brother, Hans. As a result, she was executed by guillotine. Since the 1970s, Scholl has been extensively commemorated for her anti-Nazi resistance work.
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May 12, 2014
Dorothy Hodgkin's 104th Birthday
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/vA...Rpqk-mZzw=s660
Today marks the 104th Birthday of Dorothy Hodgkin, a pioneer of the field of X-ray crystallography. A 100 year old technique in chemistry which has revolutionized the way we understand the structure of the universe on a molecular level. By studying the patterns produced by X-rays, scientists are able to surmise the molecular structure of materials. A technique so important that it has had a direct role in producing multiple Nobel Laureates including Dorothy Hodgkin, who was awarded one in 1964 for her work on uncovering the complex structure of Penicillin G.
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May 16, 2014
Maria Gaetana Agnesi's 296th Birthday
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/hg...oDMpu9SEg=s660
Maria Gaetana Agnesi was an Italian mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian. She was the first woman to write a mathematics handbook and the first woman appointed as a mathematics professor at a university.
She is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus and was a member of the faculty at the University of Bologna, although she never served.
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May 16, 2014
India Counting Day 2014
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/lv...UfRIUqzgA=s660
Results of India general election.
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May 17, 2014
Norway's 200th Year of Independence
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a8...S4V0B9bHO=s660
The dissolution of the union between the kingdoms of Norway and Sweden under the House of Bernadotte, was set in motion by a resolution of the Storting on 7 June 1905. Following some months of tension and fear of an outbreak of war between the neighbouring kingdoms [then in personal union] – and a Norwegian plebiscite held on 13 August which overwhelmingly backed dissolution – negotiations between the two governments led to Sweden's recognition of Norway as an independent constitutional monarchy on 26 October 1905.
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May 21, 2014
Mary Anning's 215th Birthday
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Mary Anning was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist who became known around the world for finds she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis in the county of Dorset in Southwest England. Anning's findings contributed to changes in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth.
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May 23, 2014
Otto Lilienthal's 166th Birthday
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A crowd gathers to watch the “Gilder King” Otto Lilienthal in flight on our homepage in Germany today. A pioneer in aviation, Lilienthal is known for his work on heavier-than-air flight, and was an inspiration for the Wright Brothers among others.
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May 27, 2014
Rachel Louise Carson's 107th Birthday
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This global doodle celebrates famed marine biologist and conservationist Rachel Louise Carson on what would be her 107th birthday. The doodle was originally more aspirational in concept, much like the figure it celebrates. Carson could be seen perched on a seacliff, staring toward the sea with a light animation of her scarf flowing in the wind.
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May 29, 2014
Norman Frederick Hetherington's 93rd Birthday
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/FS...zEEvFRmsk=s660
Mr. Squiggle and Friends are up to their old tricks on our homepage in Australia for Norman Frederick Hetherington’s 93rd birthday. Hetherington was a cartoonist and puppeteer, best known for creating Mr. Squiggle, Australia's longest-running children's television series.
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May 30, 2014
35th Anniversary of Nezha Conquers the Dragon King
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http://www.google.com/doodles/35th-a...he-dragon-king [animated]
https://soulfuldetroit.com/image/jpe...iIgCIiAIiIB//ZOur homepage in Hong Kong and Taiwan marks the 35th anniversary of Nezha Conquers the Dragon King. A source of pride in China, Nezha was the first Chinese-language animated film to be screened at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.
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Jun 2, 2014
Dragon Boat Festival 2014
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Take a ride in our dragon boat for the Duanwu Festival in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan today. During this festival people eat “zongzi” [sticky rice dumplings], drink realgar wine and race dragon boats.
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Jun 2, 2014
Republic Day Italy 2014
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Festa della Repubblica is the Italian National Day and Republic Day, which is celebrated on 2 June each year, with the main celebration taking place in Rome. The Festa della Repubblica is one of the national symbols of Italy.
The day commemorates the institutional referendum held by universal suffrage in 1946, in which the Italian people were called to the polls to decide on the form of government following the Second World War and the fall of Fascism.
The ceremonial of the event organized in Rome includes the deposition of a laurel wreath as a tribute to the Unknown Soldier at the Altare della Patria by the President of the Italian Republic and a military parade along Via dei Fori Imperiali in Rome.
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Jun 4, 2014
Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė's 169th Birthday
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/NR...2dWa0cl_C=s660
Writer Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė is best remembered for her stories about life among the peasantry. Our homepage in Lithuania depicts a scene from her book Marti [“Daughter-in-law”], in which the main character realizes she may have made a huge mistake.
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Jun 4, 2014
Alejandro Obregon's 93rd Birthday
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/7w...J9Ax2jyUA=s660
Our doodle in Colombie today draws inspiration from the work of painter Alejandro Obregon for what would be his 93rd birthday. Recognized as one of Colombia’s top painters, Obregon’s style is noted for its use of color and geometric forms.
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Jun 6, 2014
Honinbo Shusaku's 185th Birthday
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Vd...Diu25c2Pd=s660
Today in Japan and other countries, we’re marking the 185th birthday of Honinbo Shusaku, widely considered to be one of the greatest players of the ancient Chinese board game Go. Shusaku rose to prominence during Go’s golden age in the 19th century and is known for his perfection of the Shusaku opening, which is depicted in our doodle.
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Jun 12, 2014
Philippine Independence Day 2014
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Happy Independence Day to the Philippines! Our doodle depicts “Bayanihan,” a Filipino tradition where members of a community help a family move by literally carrying their house to a new place.
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June 12, 2014
World Cup 2014 #1
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http://www.google.com/doodles/world-cup-2014-1 [animated]
Anything can happen during the World Cup. Who’ll win? Who’ll score? Whichsuperpsychicanimal will replace Paul the Octopus?
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