Google doodles

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Jun 30, 2014
World Cup 2014 #44

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Jul 1, 2014
World Cup 2014 #45

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Jul 1, 2014
World Cup 2014 #46

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Jul 1, 2014
World Cup 2014 #47

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Jul 4, 2014
World Cup 2014 #48

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Jul 4, 2014
World Cup 2014 #4

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Jul 4, 2014
World Cup 2014 #50

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Jul 23, 2014
Opening of Glasgow Commonwealth Games






The Commonwealth Games are underway! Hosted in Glasgow this year, this international sporting event was first held in 1930 and takes place every four years. In addition to many typical Olympic sports, the games also include sports popular in the British Commonwealth like netball.

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Jul 30, 2014
Farid Shawki's 94th Birthday







The many faces of Farid Shawki are on display on our homepage in countries across the Middle East for the Egyptian actor’s 94th birthday. Over the course of Shawki’s 60-year career, he starred in, wrote or produced nearly 400 films.

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Aug 1, 2014
Comtesse de Ségur's 215th Birthday








Little Sophie from the novel Les Malheurs de Sophie [“Sophie's Misfortunes”] reaches for a sweet treat on our homepage in France for writer Countess of Ségur’s 215th birthday.

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Aug 3, 2014
Birgit Cullberg's 106th Birthday








We mark the 106th birthday of renowned ballet dancer Birgit Cullberg on our homepage in Sweden. Cullberg is best remembered for establishing the contemporary dance company The Cullberg Ballet.

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Aug 4, 2014
Kishore Kumar's 85th Birthday







Popular Indian singer and actor Kishore Kumar celebrates his 85th birthday on our homepage in India. Kumar is considered the Hindi film industry’s most successful playback singer. He currently holds the record for winning the most Filmfare Awards [similar to the Oscars] for playback singing.

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Aug 9, 2014
Singapore National Day 2014







Singapore’s skyline is front and center in our doodle for the country’s National Day.

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Aug 15, 2014
Korea Liberation Day 2014

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Aug 15, 2014
India Independence Day 2014

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Aug 31, 2014
Malaysia Independence Day 2014









The Hibiscus rosa-sinensis is the national flower of Malaysia. It's known as the Bunga Raya in Malay. To help celebrate this year's independence day, guest artist Red Hong Yi created this artful arrangement of Hibiscus flower pet

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Sep 1, 2014
First Day of School 2014

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September 4, 2012
Al-Biruni's Birthday






Abu Rayhan al-Biruni was an Iranian scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age. He has been variously called as the "founder of Indology", "Father of Comparative Religion", "Father of modern geodesy", and the first anthropologist.

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Jun 28, 2012
Luigi Pirandello's 145th Birthday






Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre." He was an Italian nationalist and supported Fascism in a moderate way, giving his Nobel Prize medal to the Fascist government to be melted down for the Abyssinia Campaign. Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd.

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Jun 28, 2012
JJ Rousseau's 300th Birthday









Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic and educational thought.

His Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract are cornerstones in modern political and social thought. Rousseau's sentimental novel Julie, or the New Heloise [1761] was important to the development of preromanticism and romanticism in fiction. His Emile, or On Education [1762] is an educational treatise on the place of the individual in society.

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Jun 22, 2012
Teachers' Day 2012 [El Salvador]

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Jun 21, 2012
Viktor Tsoi's 50th Birthday









Viktor Robertovich Tsoi was a Soviet and Russian singer and songwriter who co-founded Kino, one of the most popular and musically influential bands in the history of Russian music.

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Jun 12, 2012
Russia Day 2012

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Jun 8, 2012
Doodle 4 Google 2012 - Poland Winner

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Jun 6, 2012
79th Anniversary of the First Drive-in Movie










http://www.google.com/doodles/79th-a...drive-in-movie

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Jun 6, 2012
Sweden National Day 2012

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Jun 2, 2012
Republic Day Italy 2012

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May 26, 2012
Rafael Escalona's 85th Birthday






Rafael Calixto Escalona Martinez was a Colombian composer and troubadour. He was known for being one of the most prominent vallenato music composers and troubadours of the genre and for being the co-founder of the Vallenato Legend Festival, along with Consuelo Araújo and Alfonso López Michelsen.

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May 19, 2012
The Start of Turkish Youth Week

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May 18, 2012
Omar Khayyam's 964th Birthday







Omar Khayyam was a Persian polymath, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. He was born in Nishapur, in northeastern Persia, and was contemporary with the rule of the Seljuks around the time of the First Crusade.

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Jun 21, 2012
Yuri Kondratyuk's 115th Birthday






Yuri Vasilievich Kondratyuk was a Russian and Soviet engineer and mathematician of Swedish-Jewish origin. He was a pioneer of astronautics and spaceflight, a theoretician and a visionary who, in the early 20th century, developed the first known lunar orbit rendezvous [LOR], a key concept for landing and return spaceflight from Earth to the Moon. The LOR was later used for the plotting of the first actual human spaceflight to the Moon. Many other aspects of spaceflight and space exploration are covered in his works.

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Jun 28, 2012
Sergiu Celibidache's 100th Birthday






Sergiu Celibidache was a Romanian conductor, composer, musical theorist, and teacher. Educated in his native Romania, and later in Paris and Berlin, Celibidache's career in music spanned over five decades, including tenures as principal conductor of the Munich Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Sicilian Symphony Orchestra and several other European orchestras. Later in life, he taught at Mainz University in Germany and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Jul 1, 2012
Canada Day 2012

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Jul 6, 2012
José María Velasco's 172nd Birthday




José María Tranquilino Francisco de Jesús Velasco Gómez Obregón, generally known as José María Velasco, was a 19th-century Mexican polymath, most famous as a painter who made Mexican geography a symbol of national identity through his paintings. He was both one of the most popular artists of the time and internationally renowned. He received many distinctions such as the gold medal of the Mexican National Expositions of Bellas Artes in 1874 and 1876; the gold medal of the Philadelphia International Exposition in 1876, on the centenary of U.S. independence; and the medal of the Paris Universal Exposition in 1889, on the centenary of the outbreak of the French Revolution.

His painting El valle de México is considered Velasco's masterpiece, of which he created seven different renditions. Of all the nineteenth-century painters, Velasco was the "first to be elevated in the post-Revolutionary period as an exemplar of nationalism.

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May 21, 2012
Japanese Annular Eclipse






An annular solar eclipse happens when the Moon covers the Sun's center, leaving the Sun's visible outer edges to form a “ring of fire” or annulus around the Moon.

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May 28, 2012
Ruby Payne-Scott's 100th Birthday










Ruby Violet Payne-Scottwas an Australian pioneer in radiophysics and radio astronomy, and was the first female radio astronomer.

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July 1, 2009
Canada Day 2009

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Jun 2, 2009
150th anniversary of Yokohama Port Opening







Yokohama is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu. It is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area.
Yokohama developed rapidly as Japan's prominent port city following the end of Japan's relative isolation in the mid-19th century and is today one of its major ports along with Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Tokyo and Chiba.

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May 31, 2009
Children's Day 2009 - Multiple Countries

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May 25, 2009
Jordan National Day 2009

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May 22, 2009
Chen Jingrun's Birthday






Chen Jingrun also known as Jing-Run Chen, was a Chinese mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory, including Chen's theorem and the Chen prime.

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Apr 24, 2009
Tomitaro Makino's Birthday




Tomitaro Makinowas a pioneer Japanese botanist noted for his taxonomic work. He has been called "Father of Japanese Botany". He was one of the first Japanese botanists to work extensively on classifying Japanese plants using the system developed by Linnaeus. His research resulted in documenting 50,000 specimens, many of which are represented in his Makino's Illustrated Flora of Japan. Despite having dropped out of grammar school, he would eventually attain a Doctor of Science degree, and his birthday is remembered as Botany Day in Japan.

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Apr 21, 2009
Kartini Day 2009








Raden Adjeng Kartini, sometimes known as Raden Ayu Kartini, was a prominent Indonesian national hero from Java. She was a pioneer in the area of education for girls and women's rights for Indonesians.

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Apr 15, 2009
Mimar Sinan's Birthday






Mimar Sinan was the chief Ottoman architect and civil engineer for sultans Suleiman the Magnificent, Selim II, and Murad III. Known as Koca Mi'mâr Sinân Âğâ, "Sinan Agha the Grand Architect" or Grand Sinan, he was responsible for the construction of more than 300 major structures and other more modest projects, such as schools. His apprentices would later design the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul and Stari Most in Mostar.

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Apr 13, 2009
Songkran Festival 2009







In Thailand, New Year is now officially celebrated on 1 January. Songkran was the official New Year until 1888, when it was switched to a fixed date of 1 April. Then in 1940, this date was shifted to 1 January. The traditional Thai New Year Songkran was transformed into a national holiday. Celebrations are famous for the public water fights framed as ritual cleansing.

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Mar 20, 2009
Persian New Year 2009

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Mar 8, 2009
International Women's Day 2009

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Mar 3, 2009
Hinamatsuri 2009






Hinamatsuri, also called Doll's Day or Girls' Day, is a special day in Japan. Celebrated on 3 March of each year, platforms covered with a red carpet-material are used to display a set of ornamental dolls representing the Emperor, Empress, attendants, and musicians in traditional court dress of the Heian period.

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Feb 24, 2009
National Artist of Thailand

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Feb 23, 2009
Men's Day 2008