New Year's Day Google Doodle

Happy New Year’s Eve! All across the world tonight.Sharing the eager anticipation of counting down to midnight: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

New Year’s Eve Day Facts:

• New Year’s Eve is one of the favorite celebration days for many people.
• Around 1 million people will celebrate the arrival of 2017 in Times Square on New Year's Eve.
• The top three places to celebrate New Year’s Eve are Las Vegas, Disney World and of course, New York City.
• Internationally, one of the biggest celebrations is in Sydney, Australia. More than 80,000 fireworks are set off from Sydney Harbour Bridge.
• Time Square New Year's Eve Ball was first dropped in 1907 after there was a fireworks ban.
• Many Australians annually celebrate New Year’s Eve with parties, music and other forms of entertainment on December 31.
• New Year’s Eve is the day before New Year’s Day in the Gregorian calendar, which is used by many Australians.
• Many Australians celebrate New Year’s Eve on boat cruises, urban parklands or beaches.
• New Year’s Eve is not a public holiday in Australia.
• New Year's Eve is a major social holiday for many people in the United States.
• Around the start of the 1900s, New Year's Eve celebrations in America started to appear.
• The first Ball drop in Times Square was held in 1907
• Dec 31 Google celebrate New Years Eve Day with animated doodle

New years Day 2017 Google Doodle

Charles Macintosh Chemist Google Doodle. Charles Macintosh is the inventor of Raincoat

Born : 29 December 1766 Glasgow

Died : 25 July 1843 (aged 76) Dunchattan

Nationality : Scottish

Charles Macintosh FRS was a Scottish chemist and inventor of waterproof fabrics.

Macintosh was born in Glasgow, the son of George Macintosh and Mary Moore, and was first employed as a clerk.

Macintosh married, in 1790, Mary Fisher, daughter of Alexander Fisher a merchant of Glasgow.

They had one son, George Macintosh (1791-1848)

He Began Working as a Chemist Before He Turned 20 & Was Later Inducted Into the Royal Society for His Discoveries.

He devoted all his spare time to science, particularly chemistry, and before he was twenty resigned his clerkship to take up the manufacture of chemicals.

In this he was highly successful, inventing various new processes. His experiments with one of the by-products of tar, naphtha, led to his invention of waterproof fabric

Charles Macintosh Chemist died in 1843 at Dunchattan, Scotland, and was buried in the churchyard of Glasgow Cathedral.

29th December 2016 The Search Engine Google is showing this animated Doodle in many countries for the Charles Macintosh’s 250th Birthday

'Tis the season! Google Doodle - Holidays 2016

Christmas, New Year holidays are here and Google is celebrating the first holiday with its doodle. Google has released its first doodle 'Tis the season! to mark the beginning of the Holiday Season.


Tis the season for song! Wintertime brings with it a number of traditions, but few are as old or fun as caroling. 

Dating back thousands of years, the original carols were songs specific to certain regions, and shared by wandering minstrels on their travels between towns.


It wasn’t until the early 1800’s that the practice of caroling as we know it, spread across England and western Europe.

During this time, cities began hosting outdoor orchestras that played songs for people to sing along with as they walked by. 

Tis the season is a line from the popular carol Deck the halls, and is also an album of Christmas songs by Olivia Newton-John and Vince Gill.

Today's Doodle features a merry crew of carolers, with a triangle player waiting for his moment. When a viewer navigates his mouse over the colourful doodle, he sees the message 'Tis the Season and clicking on it takes you to the search page for the same caption.

The giant search engine seems to have joined the celebrations officially with an adorable Google Doodle that shows the letters G, O, O, G, L and E singing ‘Tis the season Christmas carol song.

December 23 is considered the first day of the holiday season that is followed by Christmas and New Year.

Today’s Doodle features a merry crew of carolers, with a certain triangle player waiting for his moment.

Warm up your singing voice and get ready to bring some summer cheer! Today's Doodle celebrates the season with our festive chorus of melody-makers.

As we await some more festive doodles this week, here's wishing everyone happy holidays and great times ahead.

Google Doodle for Karl Landsteiner’s 148th birthday

Google is celebrating Karl Landsteiner’s 148th birthday with an animated doodle.

Karl Landsteiner, ForMemRS, was an Austrian and American biologist and physician.

He is noted for having first distinguished the main blood groups in 1900, having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the blood, and having identified, with Alexander S. Wiener, the Rhesus factor, in 1937.With Constantin Levaditi and Erwin Popper, he discovered the polio virus in 1909.

Karl Landsteiner was born in Vienna on June 14, 1868. Landsteiner studied medicine at the University of Vienna, graduating in 1891.

From 1908 to 1920 Landsteiner was prosector at the Wilhelminenspital in Vienna and in 1911 he was sworn in as an associate professor of pathological anatomy. During that time he discovered – in co-operation with Erwin Popper – the infectious character of Poliomyelitis and isolated the polio virus.

Phoebe Snetsinger Google Doodle. 85th birthday of "Birder" Phoebe Snetsinger

The Search Engine Google is showing an animated doodle in few countries for celebrating Phoebe Snetsinger’s 85th birthday.

Phoebe Snetsinger was an American birder famous for having seen over 8,398 species by the time of her death, at the time more than anyone else in history. 

As the daughter of advertising magnate Leo Burnett, she inherited a small fortune which she used to fund numerous trips in pursuit of her hobby.

Inspired to begin birding after seeing a Blackburnian warbler in 1965, Phoebe did not follow the hobby ardently until a doctor diagnosed her with terminal melanoma in 1981. 

Instead of convalescence at home, she took a trip to Alaska to watch birds, and returned home to find the cancer in remission. From then on, she would travel to often remote areas, sometimes under dangerous environmental and political conditions, in order to add to her growing life list. 

As an amateur ornithologist, she took copious field notes, especially regarding distinctive subspecies, many of which have since been reclassified as full species.

While on a birding trip in Madagascar in 1999, the van she was riding in overturned, killing her instantly. Her final life bird, after almost two decades as a "terminal cancer patient," was the red-shouldered vanga, a species which had been described as new to science only two years before in 1997.

Snetsinger's memoir, titled Birding on Borrowed Time, was published posthumously in 2003 by the American Birding Association (ABA).

The ABA describes this work as "More than merely a travel narrative, the book is also a profoundly moving human document, as it details how Phoebe Snetsinger's obsession with birds became a way of coping with terminal illness."

Lotte Reiniger’s 117th Birthday Google Doodle. Lotte Reiniger was pioneer of Silhouette Animation

The Search Engine Google is showing a Doodle in few countries for the Lotte Reiniger’s 117th birthday.

Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation, anticipating Walt Disney by over ten years. Reiniger made over 40 films over her career, all using her invention. 

Her most well known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed and Papageno.Lotte Reininger created visually stunning and fantastical films using black cardboard, scissors, and boundless imagination. 

Pre-dating Walt Disney by nearly a decade, Reiniger pioneered a style of #animation that relied on thousands of photos of paper cut-out silhouettes arranged to tell a story. 

It was a painstaking process that involved moving paper characters ever so slightly and snapping a photo of each movement.Nearly a century later, Reiniger continues to inspire animators and artists.

Google Doodle for Frankie Manning 102nd birthday

The search Engine Google is showing this animated Doodle in few countries for celebrating Frankie Manning’s 102nd birthday.

Frankie Manning was an American dancer, instructor and choreographer. Manning is considered one of the founding fathers of Lindy Hop.

Although he didn't come up with the name, Frankie Manning was known as the ambassador of the Lindy Hop because he helped make the dance popular and spread it through to the mainstream.

The Lindy Hop and Manning’s aerial flourishes became wildly popular, and Manning himself performed the dance Frankie Manning in several 40’s era movies.

He also served in WWII, toured South America and the UK with his troupe, The Congaroos, performed the Lindy for King George VI, and won a Tony Award for his choreographic work on the Broadway musical Black and Blue.

A resident of Corona, Queens, Manning died in Manhattan on April 27, 2009, aged 94.He is interred in the Hillcrest Plot at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, NY.

Rosario Castellanos Google Doodle

The search Engine Google is showing a Doodle in few countries for celebrating the Rosario Castellanos’ 91st birthday

Rosario Castellanos was a Mexican poet and author. Along with the other members of the Generation of 1950 , she was one of Mexico's most important literary voices in the last century. 

Born : 25 May 1925 Mexico City, Mexico

Died : 7 August 1974 (aged 49) Tel Aviv, Israel

Throughout her life, she wrote eloquently about issues of cultural and gender oppression, and her work has influenced feminist theory and cultural studies. Though she died young, she opened the door of Mexican literature to women, and left a legacy that still resonates today.

During her lifetime, she saw her family lose their fortune in land reforms while she rose from being an introverted child to becoming a hugely celebrated figure in Mexico’s literary and political scene.

She was an avid tennis player.Her Poems Are All Collected in the Book ‘Poetry Is Not You’.

At the time of her death, the Israeli state news agency said that she died “as the result of an electric shock from a malfunctioning table lamp.” The agency added that she lived in the coastal city of Herzliya. The initial report blamed her death on the lamp’s wirings which were thought to have not been properly insulated.

Yuri Kochiyama's 95th Birthday Google Doodle

Google celebrates Yuri Kochiyama, an Asian American activist who dedicated her life to the fight for human rights and against racism and injustice. 

She (May 19, 1921 – June 1, 2014) was a Japanese American human rights activist, revolutionary, and close ally of Malcolm X. She is notable as one of the few prominent non-black Black separatists.

Born : Mary Yuriko Nakahara May 19, 1921 San Pedro, California, United States

Died : June 1, 2014 (aged 93) Berkeley, California, United States

Occupation : Human rights activist

Japanese American activist Yuri Kochiyama is being honored with a Google Doodle on what would have been her 95th birthday.She went to San Pedro High School and Compton Junior College, where she studied English, journalism and art, graduating in 1941.

She Became an Activist Alongside Malcolm X & Held Him in Her Arms After He Was Shot in 1965.Kochiyama died in her sleep in 2014, her family said. She was survived by her four living children, Audee, Eddie, Jimmy and Tommy, along with their spouses, nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Her husband died in 1993. She had another son, Billy, who died in the 1970s, and a daughter, Aichi, who died in 1989.

Today's doodle by Alyssa Winans features Kochiyama taking a stand at one of her many protests and rallies.She and her family would later move to Harlem, where she became deeply involved in African American, Latino, and Asian American liberation and empowerment movements. 

During her life, Kochiyama fought for many causes, including redress for Japanese-American internees, Puerto Rican independence, and the Black Liberation movement.

Sigmund Freud Google Doodle- Father of Psychoanalysis

The Search Engine Google is showing a Doodle in many Countries for celebrating Sigmund Freud's 160th Birthday.

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the father of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

The doodle today pays tribute to one of the Frued's most celebrated theories- the iceberg theory. The doodle today shows Frued's face into a visual representation of the theory which shows massive icebergs floating on waters. Only part of Freud's head, his visage- can be seen floating above the surface of the water and the rest of it- the major part- is submerged within water.

Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud is credited for the creation of psychoanalysis, which is a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. In simpler terms, it is the method of resolving mental illness through a dialogue between a doctor (possibly a mental health expert like a psychiatrist) and patient. 

Sigmund Freud's analysis of dreams as wish-fulfillments provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom formation and the mechanisms of repression as well as for elaboration of his theory of the unconscious. 

Jane Jacobs’ 100th birthday Google Doodle

Journalist, author and activist Jane Jacobs is being celebrated May 3, 2016, with a Google Doodle on what would have been her 100th birthday.

Born Jane Butzner in 1916, Jacobs went on to become one of the 20th century's most famous experts on urban planning, even though she didn't have a college degree.

Jacobs became a key figure in the New Urbanism movement, which promoted the creation of neighbourhoods based around the needs of their communities.

She became a leading voice in the world of urban design, despite her lack of a college degree and any formal education in the field.

Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities went on to become one of the most inflentual discussions of urban planning ever produced, introducing the famous concept of "eyes on the street".

Jacobs, who died in 2006, is best known for her work in urban planning, including her book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

Teacher's Day 2016 (US) Google Doodle

It’s impossible to measure the impact of a great teacher. The curiosity they ignite will become the mathematical theorems, medical breakthroughs, and beautiful art that make the world a better place.

Today’s homepage by artist Nate Swinehart honors the invaluable civil servants all across the United States who’ve dedicated their lives to molding a thoughtful, compassionate generation of citizens.

And to making sure everyone does their homework.The role of a teacher in an individual’s life goes beyond mere textbooks and test scores. 

They are the mentors, friends, and catalysts who push us to ask questions, to seek answers, to shape our mind the way it rightly should be to become better individuals.

Mario Miranda Google Doodle. 90th Birthday of Indian Cartoonist

The Search Engine Google is showing a Doodle in India and in few other countries for celebrating Mario Miranda’s 90th birthday Mario Miranda was a beloved cartoonist, best known for his works published in the Times of India and The Illustrated Weekly of India. 

Based primarily on the bustling cityscape of Mumbai, Miranda’s works often feature complex, multi-layered scenes. Humanity floods the canvas, and yet each character maintains their unique individuality. His works live on throughout India, as Murals on the walls of various buildings in Goa and other parts of India.

Mario Miranda was awarded Padma Vibhushan in 2012. Miranda was born on 2nd may 1926 in Daman, then in Portuguese India, to Goan Catholic parents. 

His ancestral surname was originally Sardessai, before the family converted to Roman Catholicism in the 1750s. Miranda, who passed away in December 2011, authored several pictorial travelogues on some of the most famous cities in the world including Lisbon and London. 

His illustrated book on the history of Goa co-authored with Manohar Mulgaonkar made him one of the biggest proponents of illustration.

Claude Shannon Google Doodle. 100th Birthday of "The Father of Information Theory"

Today the Search Engine Google is showing an animated Doodle for celebrating Claude Shannon’s 100th birthday.

Claude Shannon was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory". 

Shannon is famous for having founded information theory with a landmark paper that he published in 1948. He is perhaps equally well known for founding both digital computer and digital circuit design theory in 1937, when, as a 21-year-old master's degree student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he wrote his thesis demonstrating that electrical applications of Boolean algebra could construct any logical, numerical relationship.

As a cryptographer for the US government in World War II, Shannon developed the first unbreakable cipher. He juggled between tinkering with electronic switches to developing an electromechanic mouse called 'Theseus' which could teach itself to navigate a maze, much like the modern-day artificial intelligence.

Claude Elwood Shannon gave many more inventions to the science and technology like :

Shannon’s mouse

Shannon’s computer chess program

Shannon’s maxim

The Information Theory

Google Doodle for Hertha Marks Ayrton’s 162nd birthday

Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton was a British engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor. She was awarded the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society for her work on electric arcs and ripples in sand and water.

Hertha Ayrton was born Phoebe Sarah Marks at 6 Queen Street, Portsea, Hampshire, England on 28 April 1854. She was the third child of a Polish Jewish watchmaker named Levi Marks an immigrant from Tsarist Poland; and Alice Theresa Moss a seamstress, the daughter of Joseph Moss, a glass merchant of Portsea.

She was first woman to do so. Her words were then published, marking a permanent contribution to the canon of physical science and a victory over discrimination and exclusion.

Today, 162 years after her birth, we celebrate her legacy as engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor, her impact still rippling through the scientific community.

She died of blood poisoning (resulting from an insect bite) on 26 August 1923 at New Cottage, North Lancing, Sussex.

William Shakespeare Google Doodle

Genius. There are many examples throughout human history, but today we celebrate one particularly brilliant one: William Shakespeare— writer, playwright, and one of the most eloquent voices of all time. 

Born: April 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Died: April 23, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon".Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613.His early plays were primarily comedies and histories, and these are regarded as some of the best work ever produced in these genres.

 He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language.Today the Search Engine Google is showing a Doodle for marking 400th death anniversary of William Shakespeare.

Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet.

William Shakespeare officially wrote 38 plays in his 52 years, some of which you can spot in today's Doodle. Can you identify all of them?