Google doodles

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Jan 11, 2010
Coming of Age Day 2010

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Jan 21, 2010
Grandparent's Day 2010 - Poland

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Feb 9, 2010
Natsume Soseki's Birthday




Natsume Sōseki, was a Japanese novelist. He is best known around the world for his novelsKokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. He was also a scholar of British literature and composer of haiku, kanshi, and fairy tales. From 1984 until 2004, his portrait appeared on the front of the Japanese 1000 yen note.

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Feb 11, 2010
2010 Vancouver Olympic Games - Opening Ceremony

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Feb 28, 2010
Doodle 4 Google 2010 - Japan Winner

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Mar 1, 2010
St. David's Day 2010

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Mar 2, 2010
Doodle 4 Google 2010 - Ireland Winner

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Mar 3, 2010
Girls Day 2010 - Japan

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Mar 7, 2010
Alessandro Manzoni's Birthday






Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni was an Italian poet, novelist and philosopher. He is famous for the novel The Betrothed , generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature.The novel is also a symbol of the Italian Risorgimento, both for its patriotic message and because it was a fundamental milestone in the development of the modern, unified Italian language. Manzoni also contributed to the stabilization of the modern Italian language and helped to ensure linguistic unity throughout Italy.

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Mar 8, 2010
Women's Day 2010 - Russian

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Mar 12, 2010
Arbor Day 2010

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Mar 14, 2010
Felix Rodriguez de la Fuente's Birthday



Félix Samuel Rodríguez de la Fuente was a Spanish naturalist and broadcaster. He is best known for the highly successful and influential TV series, El Hombre y la Tierra. A graduate in medicine and self-taught in biology, he was a multifaceted charismatic figure whose influence has endured despite the passing years.

After his death, Spanish singing duet Enrique y Ana recorded the single “Amigo Felix” to pay homage to Rodriguez, the song is about all the members of the Animal Kingdom grieving his death, as a representation of his love for animals and all Nature.

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Mar 20, 2010
Persian New Year 2010

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Apr 22, 2010
Earth Day 2010

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Apr 23, 2010
National Sovereignty and Children's Day 2010 - Turkey

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Apr 25, 2010
ANZAC Day 2010 - New Zealand





The ANZAC acronym came from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, formed in Egypt prior to the Gallipoli Campaign during the First World War. The corps was the higher formation for all Australian and New Zealand soldiers. It then gave its name to ANZAC Cove, on the Gallipoli peninsula, and at first was only used to identify the men who took part in the Gallipoli landings, although it later came to mean "any Australian or New Zealand soldier of the First World War." Both the 'ANZAC' and the 'Anzac' versions of the acronym have been protected by the Commonwealth Government of Australia.

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May 1, 2010
World Expo Opens in Shanghai

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May 5, 2010
Rocket Festival

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May 25, 2010
Argentina's Bicentennial Independence

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May 27, 2010
Doodle 4 Google 2010 - US by Makenzie Melton





Congratulations to Makenzie Melton, a third grader at El Dorado Springs R-2 Schools in El Dorado Springs, Missouri. Her winning design, entitled "Rainforest Habitat,” expressed her concern that "the rainforest is in danger and it is not fair to the plants and animals.” Makenzie’s design triumphed over more than 33,000 student submissions from all over the country. Makenzie’s colored-pencil creation beautifully embodied this year’s theme.

Makenzie received a $15,000 college scholarship, a netbook computer and a $25,000 technology grant for a new computer lab at her school. Her doodle will also be featured on the Google.com homepage tomorrow, May 27, for millions of people to enjoy all across the country.

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May 29, 2010
John Harsányi's Birthday



John Charles Harsanyi was a Hungarian-American Nobel Prize laureate economist.

He is best known for his contributions to the study of game theory and its application to economics, specifically for his developing the highly innovative analysis of games of incomplete information, so-called Bayesian games. He also made important contributions to the use of game theory and economic reasoning in political and moral philosophy [specifically utilitarian ethics] as well as contributing to the study of equilibrium selection. For his work, he was a co-recipient along with John Nash and Reinhard Selten of the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. According to György Marx, he was one of The Martians.

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May 29, 2010
Isaac Albeniz's 150th Birthday




Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the Post-Romantic era who also had a significant influence on his contemporaries and younger composers. He is best known for his piano works based on Spanish folk music idioms.

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May 29, 2013
Leah Goldberg's 102nd Birthday




Leah Goldberg or Lea Goldbergwas a prolific Hebrew-language poet, author, playwright, literary translator, and comparative literary researcher. Her writings are considered classics of Israeli literature.

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May 30, 2013
Potato Day 2013

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Jun 1, 2013
Children's Day 2013 [Russia]

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Jun 5, 2013
Thomas Chippendale's 295th Birthday







Thomas Chippendale was born in Otley in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England in June 1718. He became a cabinet-maker in London, designing furniture in the mid-Georgian, English Rococo, and Neoclassical styles. In 1754 he published a book of his designs, titled The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director, upon which success he became renowned. The designs are regarded as representing the current British fashion for furniture of that period and are now reproduced globally. He was buried 16 November 1779, according to the records of St Martin-in-the-Fields, in the cemetery since built upon by the National Gallery. Chippendale furniture is much valued; a padouk cabinet that was offered for auction during 2008 sold for£2,729,250.

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Jun 16, 2013
Granadas Millenium

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Jun 21, 2013
Zlatko Grgić's 82nd Birthday





http://www.google.com/doodles/zlatko...-82nd-birthday [[animated)

Zlatko Grgić was a Croatiananimator who emigrated to Canada in the late 1960s.

Born in Zagreb, in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Grgić was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film at the 52nd Academy Awards for his 1979 film Dream Doll, produced by Bob Godfrey.

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Aug 15, 2013
KR Liberation Day






The National Liberation Day of Korea is a holiday celebrated annually on 15 August in both South and North Korea. It commemorates Victory over Japan Day, when at the end of World War II, the U.S. and Soviet forces helped end 35 years of Japanese occupation and colonial rule of Korea that lasted from 1910-1945.

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Aug 27, 2013
Natalia Sats's 110th Birthday





Natalya Il'inichna Sats was a Russian stage director who ran theaters for children for many years, including the Moscow Musical Theater for Children, now named after her. In 1937, she fell victim to Soviet repressions, but was rehabilitated in 1953.

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February 2, 2011
Lunar New Year's Eve 2011 - China, Taiwan, Hong Kong

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Feb 6, 2011
Jan Werich's Birthday





Jan Werich [6 February 1905 – 31 October 1980] was a Czech actor, playwright and writer.

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Feb 23, 2011
Oslo 2011 Holmenkollen



Holmenkollen is a neighborhood in the Vestre Aker borough of Oslo, Norway. It goes up to 500 metres above sea level and is well-known for its international skiing competitions.

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Feb 26, 2011
100th Birthday of Taro Okamoto



Tarō Okamoto was a Japanese artist noted for his abstract and avant-garde paintings and sculpture.

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Mar 6, 2011
Will Eisner's 94th Birthday







Will Eisner, American comics pioneer and creator of The Spirit, was born on March 6, 1917. He would have been 94 today.

Many of us who knew him still find it hard to believe he’s gone. He died in 2005, but for six decades, Eisner was a participant in, and inspiration for, much of the best in American comics, as well as a friend and mentor to multiple generations of comics artists.

Eisner influenced comics in dozens of ways. In the ‘40s, Eisner’s The Spirit—a seven-page newspaper feature—introduced an arsenal of visual storytelling techniques still used generations later, and provided an early testing ground for future comics stars including Jack Kirby and Jules Feiffer. [The Spirit also began a tradition of pictorially-integrated logos—inspiring today's snazzy rooftop doodle!]

Eisner was one of the first cartoonists to understand the power of visual education, and wrote eloquently about the process of making comics in Comics and Sequential Art [1985] and Graphic Storytelling [1996]. As early as 1941, he publicly advocated treating comics as a distinct literary and artistic form, and—nearly four decades later—was instrumental in the rise of the graphic novel in America, beginning with A Contract with God in 1978.

For most of his career, Eisner was years, even decades, ahead of the curve. I saw him debating artists and editors half his age, and there was rarely any question who the youngest man in the room was. It helped that he never stood on ceremony. Everyone was his peer, regardless of age or status. None of us called him “Mr. Eisner.” He was just “Will.”

Eisner lived well into his eighties; long enough to see an industry award named after him. Inevitably, the prospect loomed that Will Eisner himself might win an “Eisner Award” leading to some awkward choices; Hall of Fame, maybe? Lifetime Achievement?

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Mar 8, 2011
Women's Day 2011

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Mar 12, 2011
Chinese Arbor Day 2011

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July 26, 2017
Grandparents' Day 2017 [Spain]

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Aug 6, 2017
Luang Pradit Phairoh’s 136th Birthday




136 years ago, Luang Pradit Phairoh was born Sorn Silapabanleng to a musician's family in the Amphawa District of Thailand. As a young boy, he accompanied his father and performed as part of a traditional Thai piphat [musical ensemble] across the countryside. At one of these soirees, his musical genius was discovered by a nobleman, and he encouraged 19-year-old Sorn to move to the capital to study music.

Today, he is regarded as the greatest composer of traditional Thai music.
Luang Pradit tutored some of Thailand’s finest musicians and composers, including King Rama VII and Her Majestic Queen Rambhai Barni. In 1925, he was titled ‘Luang’ [a title similar to ‘Sir’], and in keeping with the tradition of the times, was also renamed with the honorific, Pradit Phairoh – loosely translated as ‘Master of Symphony’.

Today’s Doodle depicts Luang Pradit Phairoh, against the backdrop of the ranat ek – a type of xylophone that forms the centerpiece of a traditional piphat. Luang Pradit was particularly known for his mastery of this instrument.

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Jun 20, 2018
World Cup 2018 - Day 7






http://www.google.com/doodles/world-cup-2018-day-7 [interactive]


The 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia is underway! Over the next month, players from the men's national teams of 32 countries will compete for top rank across 12 venues in 11 cities around the country. With a total of 64 matches [[and plenty of GOOOALS!), the games will culminate at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on July 15.

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Jun 21, 2018
World Cup 2018 - Day 8




https://www.google.com/doodles/world-cup-2018-day-8 [interactive]

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Jun 27, 2018
Efua Theodora Sutherland's 94th Birthday




Many great literary works owe their legacies to dedicated teachers who explore their meaning with their students. Prominent writer and teacher Efua Theodora Sutherland played a crucial role in both the creation and exploration of prominent plays across Ghana.

Sutherland [or Aunty Efua, as she was affectionately known], was one of Africa’s earliest female writers recognized locally and internationally for numerous theater works. She is credited with bringing literary and theatrical movements in Ghana between the 1950s and 1990s through her own works and helped develop the country’s educational curriculum for children.

At a time when women played a limited role in governance, Sutherland is also remembered for her extensive work on the U.N. Convention on the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.

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Jul 5, 2018
Venezuela Independence Day 2018







From the beaches of Margarita Island to the villages of the Andes mountains, Venezuela National Day is celebrated with fireworks and most importantly, family. Today’s Doodle celebrates Venezuela’s festive culture with a couple in traditional garb dancing the joropo.

A lively dance derived from the Spanish fandango, joropo developed into a distinctly Venezuelan fusion of South American and Caribbean influences. Widely considered Venezuela’s national dance, the joropo is usually accompanied by stringed instruments — guitars, harps, and the cuatro — a four-stringed Venezuelan guitar played by cuatristas.

Dancing joropo on this day also comes in handy to work off the calories from feasting on some of the country’s traditional dishes including: arepas, plantains, griddled white cheese, and the national dish: pabellon criollo — beans, rice, plantains, and spicy shredded beef with an egg on top. On Independence Day it’s often plated to look just like the national flag!

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Oct 24, 2010
Menino Maluquinho's Birthday




Um Menino Muito Maluquinho was a Brazilian children's show, produced and aired by TVE Brasil and was originally broadcast from 19 March to 10 July 2006. The series was based on book of the same name by Brazilian cartoonist Ziraldo, with 26 episodes and one season. It was directed by César Rodrigues. Cao Hamburger and Anna Muylaert wrote the screenplay. Muyalert is also author of some of the character's books.

The series focuses on the adventures of the fictional protagonist, Maluquinho, and his friends at 5 and 10 years of age, which covers topics about art, time, friendship, school and other aspects of life, usually narrated by a 30-year old Maluquinho.The series received positive reviews from television critics, earned high ratings, and has won some awards, such as Japan's NHK Japan Prize award. It was also nominated for an International Emmy Award for Best Children and Youth program in 2007.

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Oct 21, 2010
Dizzy Gillespie's Birthday





First known for his contributions to bebop and modern jazz, and second known for his iconic cheeks, Dizzie Gillespie's doodle is one that is both lively and unlike any other doodle to hit the homepage. Inspired by the jazz album illustrations of the mid 1900s, Dizzie's doodle quickly turned into a crescendo of shapes and color.

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Oct 16, 2010
Oscar Wilde's 156th Birthday




Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46.

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Oct 16, 2010
Ahmad Shawqi's Birthday



Ahmed Shawqi, nicknamed the Prince of Poets, was an Arabic poet laureate, an Egyptian poet and dramatist who pioneered the modern Egyptian literary movement, most notably introducing the genre of poetic epics to the Arabic literary tradition.

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Oct 16, 2010
Double Ninth Festival 2010



The Double Ninth Festival [Chong Yang Festival or Chung Yeung Festival in China, Hong Kong], Macao and Taiwan, Chōyō [Japanese: 重陽, Kiku no Sekku], Jungyangjeol [Hangul: 중양절, Hanja: 重陽節), Vietnamese: Tết Trùng Cửu], observed on the ninth day of the ninth month in the Chinese calendar, is a traditional Chinese holiday, mentioned in writing since before the Eastern Han period [before AD 25].

According to the I Ching, nine is a yang number; the ninth day of the ninth lunar month [[or double nine) has too much yang [[a traditional Chinese spiritual concept) and is thus a potentially very auspicious date. Hence, the day is also called "Double Yang Festival" [重陽節]. It is customary to climb a high mountain, drink chrysanthemum liquor, and wear the zhuyu [茱萸] plant, Cornus officinalis. [Both chrysanthemum and zhuyu are considered to have cleansing qualities and are used on other occasions to air out houses and cure illnesses.]

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Oct 12, 2010
Doodle 4 Google 2010 - South America Winner

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Oct 3, 2010
German Reunification Day 2010