September is Google's birthday month and, in honor of everyone's favorite search engine, here are a selection of some of its celebratory images (or doodles) of other worthy celebrations. Somehow, arriving at Google's homepage and finding a special visual is always a thrill. Perhaps it is the particular visual interpretation. Perhaps it is the fun in needing to guess what special day today is in advance of placing your cursor on the image and having it revealed. One thing that is interesting (and which seems to heighten my sense that we agonize over but also forget the past so quickly) is that the early images always included the very literal version of Google's logo. In time, these became more creative. If they were published in the US or globally, I didn't specify. If they were limited to other countries, I mention those in parentheses. So much we have missed out on! In any case, here is a bit of Google history:
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| September 17, 2000: 2000 Summer Games in Sydney - Gymnastics | |
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| July 4, 2001: Independence Day |
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| February 8, 2002: Olympics Opening Ceremony | |
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| May 24, 2002: Dilbert Google Doodle (5 of 5) |
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| August 6, 2002: Andy Warhol's Birthday |
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| February 1, 2003: Chinese New Year |
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| March 6, 2003: Michelangelo's Birthday |
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| June 16, 2003: MC Escher's Birthday |
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| December 22, 2003: Holiday Series (1 of 5) |
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| February 14, 2004: Valentine's Day |
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| March 20, 2004: International Day of Francophonie |
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| August 19, 2004: 2004 Athens Olympic Games - Weight Lifting |
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| October 31, 2004: Happy Halloween |
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| November 2, 2004: US Elections |
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| January 1, 2005: Happy New Year |
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| March 30, 2005: Vincent Van Gogh's Birthday |
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| April 30, 2005: Queen's Day (Netherlands) |
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| June 8, 2005: Frank Lloyd Wright's Birthday |
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| August 15, 2005: Korean Liberation Day (Korea) |
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| September 27, 2005: Google's 7th Birthday |
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| November 17, 2005: Doodle 4 Google Competition: 'Day of the child' by Lisa Wainaina (UK) |
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| January 4, 2006: Louis Braille's Birthday |
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| May 22, 2006: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Birthday |
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| April 22, 2007: Earth Day |
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| August 8, 2007: Countdown to 2008 Beijing Olympics (China) |
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| October 31, 2007: Happy Halloween |
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| January 28, 2008: 50th Anniversary of LEGO Brick |
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| March 20, 2008: First Day of Spring |
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| March 26, 2008: Parametron Computer 1 (Japan) |
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| April 13, 2008: Antonio Meucci (Italy) |
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| April 30, 2008: iGoogle Artist Themes designed by Jeff Koons |
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| May 15, 2008: Anniversary of the first film projection (Spain) |
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| May 16, 2008: Invention of the First Laser |
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| May 18, 2008: 125th Birthday of Walter Gropius |
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| May 29, 2008: Anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest |
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| June 6, 2008: Diego Velazquez's Birthday |
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| June 7, 2008: Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Birthday (UK) |
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| June 21, 2008: First Day of Summer |
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| July 8, 2008: Kaii Higashiyama's Birthday (Japan) |
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| July 28, 2008: Beatrix Potter's Birthday |
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| August 8, 2008: 2008 Beijing Olympic Games - Opening Ceremony |
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| August 14, 2008: 2008 Beijing Olympics - Basketball |
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| September 1, 2008: Filopimin Finos (Greece) |
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| September 10, 2008: Large Hadron Collider |
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| September 14, 2008: Mid-Autumn Festival (Vietnam) |
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| October 20, 2008: Day of Trees (Poland) |
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| October 31, 2008: Happy Halloween! designed by Wes Craven |
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| November 1, 2008: Day of the Dead (Mexico) |
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| November 1, 2008: 1000 Years of The Tale of Genji (Japan) |
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| November 4, 2008: Election Day |
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| November 24, 2008: Portuguese Scientific Culture Day (Portugal) |
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| January 28, 2009: Jackson Pollock's Birthday - Courtesy of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation |
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| February 9, 2009: Lantern Festival (China) |
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| February 12, 2009: Charles Darwin's Birthday |
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| March 2, 2009: Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! Courtesy of Dr. Seuss Enterprises |
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| May 7, 2009: Alexander Popov's Invention of the Radio (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) |
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| June 21, 2009: Father's Day (Selected Countries) |
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| July 7, 2009: Tanabata Lover's Holiday (Japan) |
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| July 12, 2009: Birthday of Pablo Neruda |
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| July 14, 2009: Bastille Day (France) |
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| July 23, 2009: Comic Con 2009 - Design and pencil by Jim Lee, ink by Scott Williams, and color by Alex Sinclair |
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| September 15, 2009: Crop Circles |
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| November 2, 2009: Loy Krathong (Thailand) |
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| November 5, 2009: Sesame Street - Cookie Monster |
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| December 18, 2009: Jan Evangelista Purkyne's Birthday (Czech Republic) |
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| January 14, 2010: Festival of Kites (India) |
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| January 15, 2010: Istanbul, Capital of Culture (Turkey) |
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| January 18, 2010: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Day |
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| March 14, 2010: Pi Day |
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| March 17, 2010: St. Patrick's Day |
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| April 1, 2010: April Fools! |
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| May 5, 2010: Patios Cordobeses (Spain) |
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| May 7, 2010: 170th Birthday of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
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| May 9, 2010: Mother's Day |
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| May 9, 2010: 150th Birthday of J. M. Barrie |
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| May 13, 2010: Father's Day (Germany) |
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| May 21, 2010: PAC-MAN's 30th Anniversary |
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| June 5, 2010: Dennis Gabor's 110th Birthday - Holography support courtesy of Stanford |
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| June 11, 2010: Jacques Cousteau's 100th Birthday |
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| June 29, 2010: Antoine de Saint-Exupery's 110th Birthday (France, Germany) |
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| July 11, 2010: World Cup Final |
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| July 24, 2010: Alfons Mucha's 150th Birthday |
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| August 1, 2010: Swiss National Day (Switzerland) |
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| September 27, 2010: Happy 12th Birthday Google by Wayne Thiebaud |
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| October 21, 2010: Dizzy Gillespie's Birthday |
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| October 31, 2010: 2500 years from the first Marathon (Greece) |
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| October 31, 2010: Birthday of Katsushika Hokusai (Japan) |
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| November 2, 2010: Melbourne Cup (Australia) |
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| November 8, 2010: Discovery of X-Rays |
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| November 25, 2010: Happy Thanksgiving! Doodle by Ina Garten |
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| January 19, 2011: Cezanne's 172nd Birthday |
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| January 20, 2011: 50th Anniversary of JFK's Inaugural |
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| February 8, 2011: Jules Verne's 183rd Birthday |
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| February 19, 2011: Birthday of Constantin Brancusi |
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| April 3, 2011: 119th Anniversary of the First Documented Ice Cream Sundae |
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| April 26, 2011: 226th Birthday of John James Audubon |
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| April 27, 2011: Freedom Day (South Africa) |
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| April 29, 2011: The Wedding of Prince William of Wales and Catherine Middleton |
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| June 9, 2011: Les Paul's 96th Birthday |
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| June 12, 2011: Dia Dos Namorados (Brazil) |
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| July 20, 2011: Gregor Mendel's 189th Birthday |
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| August 2, 2011: Celebrating the Wildebeest Migration - by Samuel Guthui (Tanzania, Kenya) |
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| August 4, 2011: Roberto Burle Marx's 102nd Birthday (Brazil) |
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| August 6, 2011: Lucille Ball's 100th Birthday |
Many of Google's doodles have become interactive. Today, for instance, is an amazing journey through Freddie Mercury's life and music. Check it out!!
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