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Google is celebrating Amelia Earhart’s 115th birthday with Amelia Earhart and Lockheed Vega 5B monoplane on its homepage.

Amelia Mary Earhart (July 24, 1897 – disappeared 1937) was a noted American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this record.During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island.
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Google is celebrating Gustav Klimt’s 150th birthday with his most famous painting The Kiss (1907-08) oil and gold leaf on canvas on its homepage.
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862– February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects.
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Google is celebrating Alan Turing’s 100th birthday with a an interactive HTML5 codebreaking game google doodle on its homepage that simulates the Turing Machine.

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of “algorithm” and “computation” with the Turing machine, which played a significant role in the creation of the modern computer.Turing is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.
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Google is celebrating Peter Carl Fabergé’s 166th birthday google with a set of six gold and precious metals google doodle on its homepage.

Peter Carl Fabergé also known as “Karl Gustavovich Fabergé” ( May 30 1846 – September 24, 1920) was a Russian jeweller, best known for the famous Fabergé eggs, made in the style of genuine Easter eggs, but using precious metals and gemstones rather than more mundane materials.
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Google is celebrating Robert Moog’s 78th birthday with a interactive synthesizer google doodle on its homepage. Now compose, record and play back your own tracks.

Robert Arthur “Bob” Moog (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005), founder of Moog Music, was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.
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Google is celebrating Mother’s Day with a new animated mother and 2 kids doodle on its homepage.
Mother’s Day is a celebration that honors mothers and motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in March, April, or May
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Google is celebrating Howard Carter’s 138 birthday with a collection of archaeological structures on its homepage.
Howard Carter (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist, noted as a primary discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Howard Carter was born in London, England, the son of Samuel Carter.
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Google is celebrating Keith Haring’s 54th birthday with a new google doodle on its homepage.Keith Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s.Haring achieved his first public attention with chalk drawings in the subways of New York. These were his first recognized pieces of pop art.
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Google is celebrating Gideon Sundback’s 132nd birthday with a new interactive big zipper google doodle on its homepage.Gideon Sundback (April 24, 1880 – June 21, 1954) was a Swedish-American electrical engineer. Gideon Sundback is most commonly associated with his work in the development of the zipper. Otto Fredrik Gideon Sundback was born on Sonarp farm in Ödestugu Parish, in Jönköping County, Småland, Sweden.
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