MLK Day | Jan. 17
Paul Cezanne | Jan. 19
JFK's Inauguration | Jan. 20
The 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's inauguration
was honored with a word cloud featuring excerpts from his famous speech.
Jules Verne | Feb. 08
Jules Verne's 183rd birthday
Thomas Edison | Feb. 11
Will Eisner | March 6
The 94th birthday of comic writer and artist Will Eisner.
Harry Houdini | March 24
Robert Bunsen | March 31
Robert Bunsen's 200th birthday.
Ice Cream Sundaes | Arpril 3
First Man in Space | April 12
A celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight,
Yuri Gagarin's launch and orbit around the Earth.
Earth Day | April 12
Martha Graham | May 11
( Animated by Ryan Woodward, choreographed by Janet Eilber,
and danced by Blakeley White-McGuire )
Doodle4Google | May 20
The Doodle 4 Google contest allows children in kindergarten through grade 12
to draw a unique Google logo based on a theme.
In 2011, the theme was "What I'd like to do someday..."
Above is "Space Life" by Matteo Lopez of Monte Verde Elementary School.
Richard Scarry | June 5
Les Paul | June 9
Les Paul's 96th birthday.
Total Lunar eclipse | June 15 (2011)
A Doodle mimics the eclipse with photos of the actual event itself.
A click and a push of the slider under the Doodle
moves the images from a white moon to red and back to white again,
replicating the Earth's shadow passing by.
Father's Day | Jun 19
Summer Solstice | June 21
Takashi Murakami — famous for his brightly colored, Superflat creations
that draw from manga, anime and other aspects of Japanese pop culture
— contributed designs featured on the Google homepage
to celebrate both the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere
and the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere.
Independence Day | July 4
MGregor Mendel | July 20
Austrian friar and scientist Gregor Mendel,
whose work with genetics was not truly appreciated
until after his death, would have turned 189.
Alexander Calder | July 22
Alexander Calder's 113th birthday.
"Even people who don't know art know Alexander Calder's art,"
Times art critic Christopher Knight wrote of Calder earlier this year.
"Forever identified with the mobile, Calder gave sculptural form to currents of air."
Lucille Ball | Aug. 6
Lucille Ball's 100th birthday.
Jorge Luis Borges | Aug. 24
Writer Jorge Luis Borges was celebrated with an illustrated logo on the 112th anniversary of his birth.
Borges was born Aug. 24, 1899, in Argentina and died at age 86 in Geneva.
Freddie Mercury | Sept. 5
Freddie Mercury's 65th birthday.
10the Anniversary of Terrorist Attacks | Sept. 11
Google went Doodle-less for the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001
terrorist attacks with a simple black ribbon to commemorate
the nearly 3,000 men, women and children who died 10 years ago.
Albert von Szent-Györgyi | Sept. 16
Nobel Prize winner Albert von Szent-Györgyi, a Hungarian physiologist,
discovered the nutrient vitamin C. He would have been 118 years old Sept. 16.
Jim Henson | Sept. 24
Jim Henson's 75th birthday.
Google's 13the Birthday | Sept. 27
The Internet search engine celebrated its 13th birthday with a Google Doodle
sporting colorful party hats as it is poised to blow out the candles on its birthday cake.
Art Clokey | Oct. 12
The 90th birthday of Gumy creator Art Clokey.
Halloween | Oct. 31
Halloween.
Marie Curie | Nov. 7
The 144th anniversary of scientist Marie Curie's birth.
Veteran's Day | Nov. 7
A yellow ribbon tied around a tree honors Veteran's Day in the U.S
Louis Daguerre | Nov. 18
The Nov. 18 doodle was a homage to Louis Daguerre on his 224th birthday
— and a reminder to web-surfing shutterbugs, photo-oglers and moving picture buffs
everywhere to say a thank-you to photography's most widely celebrated parent.
Mark Twain | Nov. 30
Mark Twain, who had arguably one of the sharpest tongues in literary history,
was celebrated with a wide-angle Google Doodle
showing Tom Sawyer and a young companion he's duped into whitewashing a picket fence.
Diego Rivera | Dec. 8
A Google Doodle honored the 125th birthday of artist and social activist
Diego Rivera, famous for his murals.
Robert Noyce | Dec. 12
On Dec. 12, Google celebrated the 84th anniversary of the birth of
Robert Noyce, co-inventor of the microchip.
Royce was called a modern-day Thomas Edison in his 1990 obituary in the Los Angeles Times.
New Year's Eve | Dec. 31
Google rings in the New Year with noisemakers and hats.
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