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Google is celebrating Earth Day with a new animated flowers google doodle on its homepage. Earth Day was first observed on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. Earth Day is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network and is celebrated in more than 175 countries every year.The genesis of Earth Day is credited to Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California.
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Google is celebrating Robert Doisneau’s 100th birthday with his landmark shots in a new google doodle on its homepage.
Robert Doisneau (14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994) was a French photographer. In the 1930s he used a Leica on the streets of Paris; together with Henri Cartier-Bresson he was a pioneer of photojournalism.He is renowned for his 1950 image Le baiser de l’hôtel de ville (Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville), a photo of a couple kissing in the busy streets of Paris. Robert Doisneau was appointed a Chevalier (Knight) of the National Order of the Légion d’honneur in 1984
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Google is celebrating Eadweard Muybridge’s 182nd birthday with a animated The Horse in Motion google doodle. Eadweard J. Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was an English photographer of Dutch ancestry who spent much of his life in the United States. He is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion which used multiple cameras to capture motion, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip.
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Google is celebrating Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s 126th birthday with a Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago doodle on its Google homepage.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German architect.He was born in Aachen, Germany in 1886.Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, along with Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, are widely regarded as the pioneering masters of Modern architecture.
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Google is celebrating Juan Gris’s 125th birthday with a new cubist doodle on its Google homepage. José Victoriano (Carmelo Carlos) González-Pérez (March 23, 1887 – May 11, 1927), better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life. His works, which are closely connected to the emergence of an innovative artistic genre  — Cubism — are among the movement’s most distinctive.
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Google is celebrating Akira Yoshizawa’s 101st with a new origami doodle on the Google homepage,created by Robert J Lang, one of the world’s leading origami artists.
Akira Yoshizawa (14 March 1911 – 14 March 2005) was an origamist, considered to be the grandmaster of origami. According to his own estimation made in 1989, he created more than 50,000 models, of which only a few hundred designs were diagrammed in his 18 books.
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Google is celebrating 101th International Women’s Day with a new google doodle on its homepage with symbols of women replacing its familiar logo.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 Gioachino Rossini’s 220th birthday and leap year with a new google doodle on its homepage.This doodle is inspired by Gioachino Antonio Rossini’s famous 1816 comic opera II barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville).
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces.
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Google is celebrating Heinrich Hertz's 155th birthday with a new animated electromagnetic waves google doodle in Google colours - blue, red, yellow and green in its homepage. Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 – January 1, 1894) was a German…

Today the search giant, Google is celebrating Valentine’s Day with a new animation video Google Doodle that uses Tony Bennett’s song “Cold, Cold Heart” on its homepage.Just click the play button.
Valentine’s Day is a holiday observed on February 14 honoring one or more early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine. Watch below video for this doodle.

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