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Google marked the 160th anniversary of the first passenger train journey in India with a doodle on its homepage. On April 16, 1853, the first commercial passenger train chugged out of Bori Bunder, in Bombay to Thane, covering a distance of 34 kilometres. The train was hauled by three locomotives, Sahib, Sindh, and Sultan,took 400 invited passengers in 14 carriages on a 57 minute journey. Google doodle shows a steam…

Monday, April, 15, 2013 – The Search Giant Google is honoring the famous Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler on his 306th birthday by showing a Doodle on its home page today. Leonhard Euler was arguably the most important mathematician of the 18th century and one of the greatest of all time. He introduced most modern mathematical terminology and notation and was also renowned for his work in mechanics, fluid…

March 11, 2013, Monday- Today Google shows an interactive animated Doodle for celebrating 61st birthday of Douglas Adams. Douglas Noel Adams was an English writer, humorist and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a “trilogy” of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a…

Google pays tribute to south African singer Miriam Makeba’s 81st birthday with doodle. Miriam Makeba, nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award-winning South African singer and civil rights activist.She is best known for the song “Pata Pata”, first recorded in 1957 and released in the U.S. Makeba always stressed her African pride through her hairstyles and traditional clothes and the Google doodle in her honour also shows her in traditional…

February 22nd, 2013 Google today celebrates Edward Gorey‘s 88th birthday. Edward St. John Gorey was an American writer and artist noted for his illustrated books.He was best known for his macabre drawings and picture-stories. Gorey was born on February 22, 1925 and went to the School of Art Institute of Chicago for formal art training for just one semester. He attended Harvard University from 1946 to 1950 where he studied…

Today (01-January-2013)Google is celebrating New Year’s Day 2013 with a special Doodle. Today’s doodle is continuation of yesterday’s one.Yesterday’s doodle depicts New Year Eve party with lot of guests. If we see the today’s one party is finished. Cleaning process is started. Guests are gone to their places. Every year Google is putting doodle for New Year.But this year’s doodle is very cute and interesting.  

Today (December 10th, 2012) Google is celebrating “the mother of computer programming” Augusta Ada King, also known as Ada Lovelace, with a doodle for her 197th birthday. Ada was an English mathematician and writer.And also she is considered as the world’s first computer programmer.She describes an algorithm for the analytical engine to compute Bernoulli numbers. It is considered as the first algorithm. Ada Lovelace, was mainly known for her work…

Today Google put a special doodle to celebrate Wassily Kandinsky’s 146th Birthday. Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first purely abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. Kandinsky combined in himself Eastern and Western strains. His father’s family came from Siberia and one of his ancestors was an Asiatic princess. As a child he was…

Google put a special Thanks Giving Doodle to celebrates Thanks Giving. Thanksgiving Day is a holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada.Thanksgiving is celebrated each year on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Historically, Thanksgiving had roots in religious and cultural tradition. Today’s Thanks giving Doodle is looking good. Thanksgiving is the longest running holiday Google…

Today (November 12, 2012) Google honors the French Sculptor Auguste Rodin with a Google Doodle. Google has integrated Auguste Rodin’s “The Thinker” sculpture into its homepage logo for 172nd birthday of Auguste Rodin. Auguste Rodin was born on 12th November 1840 in Paris. His full name is François-Auguste-René Rodin Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past. Auguste…