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Google is celebrating 70th Anniversary of La Tomatina with a new animated doodle on its homepage. La Tomatina started the last Wednesday of August in 1945.

La Tomatina (Spanish pronunciation: [la toma?tina]) is a festival that is held in the Valencian town of
Buñol, a town located 30 km / 19 miles from the Mediterranean, in which participants throw tomatoes and
get involved in this tomato fight purely for fun. It is held on the last Wednesday of August, during the week of festivities of Buñol.
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Google is celebrating Bartolomeo Cristofori’s 360 birthday with a new interactive piano doodle on its homepage.

Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco (4 May 1655 – 27 January 1731) was an Italian maker of musical instruments, generally regarded as the inventor of the piano. Cristofori was born in Padua in the Republic of Venice.
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Google is celebrating 126th Anniversary of the public opening of the Eiffel Tower with a new doodle on its homepage. The Eiffel Tower is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. It was named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.Eiffel Tower was open to the public in Paris on March 31, 1889.
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Google is celebrating Dorothy Hodgkin’s 104th birthday with a new doodle on its homepage.
Dorothy Mary Hodgkin, OM, FRS (12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994), born Crowfoot, was a British biochemist, credited with the development of protein crystallography. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.
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Google is celebrating Earth Day with a new 5 animated doodles on its homepage. Just click on the doodle and it changes between the Rufous Hummingbird, Veiled Chameleon, Dung Beetle, Moon Jellyfish, Puffer Fish and the Japanese Macaque. And who all wish us a Happy Earth Day 2014.

Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was first celebrated in 1970, and is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network and celebrated in more than 192 countries each year.
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Google is celebrating International Women’s with a new interactive doodle on its homepage.Just click the play button to watch the video about “Happy International Women’s Day”.
International Women’s Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day, is marked on March 8 every year. In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women’s economic, political, and social achievements.
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Google is celebrating Valentine’s Day with a new interactive doodle on its homepage and lets you make customized chocolates and gives you a short-link to share it with your loved ones.

Saint Valentine’s Day, also known as Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is observed on February 14 each year. It is celebrated in many countries around the world, although it is not a holiday in most of them.
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Google is celebrating Carlos Juan Finlay’s 180th birthday with a new doodle on its homepage.
Carlos Juan Finlay (December 3, 1833 – August 20, 1915) was a Cuban physician and scientist recognized as a pioneer in yellow fever research.Finlay was born Juan Carlos Finlay y Barres, in Puerto Príncipe (now Camagüey), Cuba, of French and Scottish descent. He reversed the order of his given names to “Carlos Juan” later in his life. In 1853 he attended Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1855, and completed his studies in Havana and in Paris.
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Google is celebrating Hermann Rorschach’s 129th birthday with a new interactive inkblot test doodle on its homepage.

Hermann Rorschach (8 November 1884 – 1 April 1922) was a Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, best known for developing a projective test known as the Rorschach inkblot test. This test was reportedly designed to reflect unconscious parts of the personality that “project” onto the stimuli. In the test, individuals are shown 10 inkblots – one at a time – and asked to report what objects or figures they see in each of them.
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