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Google honored mothers around the world on [[Mother's Day]] with a doodle showing the way how they fulfill their responsibility to every family. |
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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..<ref>{{cite news|title=RCMP Google Doodle salutes 140 years of Mounties|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2013/05/rcmp-google-doodle-salutes-140-years-of-mounties.html|publisher=[[CBC.ca]]|date=May 23, 2013}}</ref> |
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== References == |
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Revision as of 14:17, 23 May 2013
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.[1][2]
January 16
Google celebrated the 112th 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.[3]
- 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.[4]
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- Google paid tribute to the Canadian penny being withdrawn from circulation.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.[5]
- 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.[6]
February 6
Google celebrated the 100th 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.[7][8]
February 8
Google India celebrated 72nd 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.[9]
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.[10]
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.[11][12]
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.[13]
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,[14] expressed Google should have celebrated instead; a Google Doodle for Easter last appeared in 2000.[15][16][17]
April
April 2
Google commemorated the 366th birthday of Maria Sibylla Merian.[18]
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.[19]
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. [20] [21] Today marks the 160th anniversary of this journey. [22]
April 22
Google celebrated Earth Day with an animated doodle.[23]
April 23
Google UK celebrated St. George's Day with a Doodle.[24]
April 25
Google celebrated Ella Fitzgerald's 96th birthday with a Doodle.[25]
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.[26]
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.[27]
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".[28]
May 12
Google honored mothers around the world on Mother's Day with a doodle showing the way how 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..[29]
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/
- ^ http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/google-doodle-honors-cesar-chavez-stirs-controversy/story?id=18850117
- ^ 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 on YouTube
- ^ "RCMP Google Doodle salutes 140 years of Mounties". CBC.ca. May 23, 2013.
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