List of Google Doodles in 2013

The Google Doodle is an artistic version of the Google logo. Google Doodles represent events like holidays, anniversaries, or current events. Some of the doodles were limited to Google's country specific home pages while others appeared globally.

January

January 9

The 150th anniversary of London Underground coincided with a Doodle based on the Tube map.[1][2]

January 16

Google celebrated the 112th birthday of Frank Zamboni with an interactive doodle that allowed the player to ride a zamboni to clean an ice rink.

January 26

February

February 4

February 6

Google celebrated the 100th birthday of Mary Leakey, a British archaeologist and anthropologist, who discovered the first fossilized links between apes and humans, in Africa. The doodle featured Leakey working at an excavation site marked with footprints, where she is surrounded by archaeological tools like brush, leaf-and-square and trowel, and two dogs playing around the site.[7][8]

February 8

Google India celebrated 72nd birthday of Jagjit Singh, a prominent Indian Ghazal singer, songwriter and musician. The doodle featured Jagjit, with his hands on the harmonium, as the logo appears partly hidden behind him.[9]

February 14

Google celebrated Valentine's Day and also the 154th birthday of an American engineer George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. in a single doodle. The doodle was interactive, with a heart shape button in the middle, which when clicked, rotated the two Ferris wheels at its sides.

February 15

A doodle celebrating the fly-by of asteroid 2012 DA14 was withdrawn after a meteor injured more than 1000 people in Russia, although the two events were unrelated.[10]

February 19

Google celebrated the 540th birthday of Nicolaus Copernicus with an animated doodle of Copernicus's model of the solar system.

February 22

Google UK celebrated the 88th birthday of Edward Gorey with a series of drawings in his distinct style.[11][12]

March

March 1

Google UK celebrated St. David's Day with a doodle featuring the Welsh Dragon breathing flames that spelled out "Google".

March 4

Google celebrated Miriam Makeba's 81st birthday, by featuring a stylized version of the logo, removing the Catull font and the trademark colors for a whole day.

March 7

Google celebrated Vladimir Dakhno's 81st birthday, animation film director and scriptwriter, laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine), People's Artist of Ukraine, best known for the animation series Cossacks (1967-1995).

March 11

Google celebrated Douglas Adams' 61st birthday, by featuring a stylized version of the Heart of Gold's computer console, the spaceship featured in his book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.[13]

March 17

Google celebrated Saint Patrick's Day with a tap-dancing doodle for a number of countries:

March 26

Google Bangladesh celebrated the Bangladesh Independence Day 2013.

March 31

Google's U.S. page commemorated the 86th birthday of Cesar Chavez. This brought some controversy as the date coincided with Easter, which some people[14] expressed Google should have celebrated instead; a Google Doodle for Easter last appeared in 2000.[15][16][17]

April

April 2

Google celebrated the 366th birthday of German naturalist and scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian.[18]

April 15

Google celebrated the 306th birthday of Leonhard Euler; a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist, known for his important discoveries in fields as diverse as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory. He is best known for his work in fluid dynamics, optics and astronomy.[19]

April 16

Google celebrated India's first passenger train. The first train on Indian subcontinent ran over a stretch of 21 miles from Mumbai (called 'Bombay' then) to Thane on April 16, 1853. It is depicted as a chugging train, pluming smoke in the backdrop of palm trees and palace with domes and minarets. One of the two 'O's of Google is replaced by the front of the locomotive engine.[20][21] Today marks the 160th anniversary of this journey.[22]

April 22

Google celebrated Earth Day with an animated doodle.[23]

April 23

Google UK celebrated St. George's Day with a Doodle.[24]

April 25

Google recognized the birth of Ella Fitzgerald with a Doodle.[25]

May

May 1

Google remembered International Workers' Day (also known as May Day) with a doodle where worker are at work to build a different version of Google logo.[26]

May 2

Google paid homage to Indian director Satyajit Ray on his 92nd birthday with a doodle featuring the classic Apu-Durga scene from his first and most prominent film Pather Panchali, which was released in 1955. The doodle featured on the Indian version of the search engine.[27]

May 8

Google honored American filmmaker and graphic designer Saul Bass on his 93rd birthday with a video doodle done in the style of his title sequences, accompanied by Dave Brubeck's "Unsquare Dance".[28]

May 12

Google honored mothers on Mother's Day with a doodle showing the way they fulfill their responsibility to every family.

May 23

Google honored the 141st anniversary of the founding of the North-West Mounted Police. What is now the Royal Canadian Mounted Police featured prominently in the Klondike Gold Rush through its policing involvements.

May 31

Google honored German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri, inventor of the Petri dish, on his 161st birthday.[29]

June

June 9

Attraction, the shadow group from Hungary's victory was shown on this Google doodle displayed in Hungary and the United Kingdom.

June 10

Google celebrated the 85th birthday of children's author Maurice Sendak. It features Max, a character from Where the Wild Things Are.

June 12

The Google search page in Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Paraguay, Peru, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad And Tobago, the United Kingdom, the United States, Uruguay and Zimbabwe celebrates the Duanwu Festival.

June 16

Google honored fathers on Father's Day with a doodle featuring a button which when clicked shows fun illustrations that describes them like that of a slot machine.

June 25

Google doodle celebrated the 161st birth anniversary of Antoni Gaudi, the Spanish Catalan architect, who is known for the incomplete Sagrada Familia church of Barcelona.[30]

June 29

Google celebrated the 100th edition of the Tour de France in 2013. The Tour de France is the biggest cycle racing in the world each year.

July

July 1

Google underlined Canada Day with a doodle featuring the Parliament of Canada buildings.[31]

July 3

July 4

Google's doodle depicted a clickable map of a road trip across the United States, celebrating United States Independence Day. Clicking the doodle shows pictures of a family of dogs making stops at several iconic American Landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, a drive-through tree near Humboldt Redwoods State Park, The Grand Canyon, Mount Rushmore, and the Statue of Liberty.

July 8

Google Doodle for this day was a point-and-click adventure game about an alien that crashes on Earth. This doodle was done to mark the 66th anniversary of the UFO incident in Roswell, New Mexico.[34]

July 13

Google depicted the chess scene from The Seventh Seal for director Ingmar Bergman's 95th birthday.[35]

July 15

Google doodles for Rembrandt van Rijn's 407th birthday. With the doodle, the search engine celebrates the 407th birth anniversary of the artist who made a similar oil painting in 1659 which was called the 'Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar'. Rembrandt van Rijn notable works include The Abduction of Europa, Judas Repentant, Returning the Pieces of Silver and The Artist in His Studio.[36]

July 25

On her 93rd birthday, Google created a doodle in sepia tone about the DNA with the cartoon face of British biophysicist Rosalind Franklin for her excellent contributions in the field of X-ray crystallography.[37]

July 28

Google Peru celebrated Peru's Independence Day. The doodle featured a Andean cock-of-the-rock carrying a red-and-white ribbon in its beak.

August

August 14

On August 14, 2013 Independence Day of Pakistan was observed with a Google Doodle.[38] The doodle featured northern areas of Pakistan with K2 mountain in the background and a markhor, Pakistan's national animal standing on a hill top. Between the horns of the markhor there is white colored crescent and star. In Pakistan's flag the crescent stands for the bright future and five corners of the star are for Five Pillars of Islam i.e. Tauheed, Salat, Fasting, Zakat and Hajj.

August 15

On August 15, 2013, Independence Day of India was observed with a Google Doodle. It features a ribbon in the colours of the national flag.[39]

August 17

On August 17, 2013, Independence Day of Indonesia was observed with a Google Doodle. It features the Garuda and the Google logo written with the colors of the national flag.[40]

August 22

On August 22, 2013, the anniversary of Claude Debussy's birthday, was observed with a celebratory Google Doodle that played the first half of Clair de Lune.[41]

August 25

On August 25, 2013, Independence Day of Uruguay was observed with a Google Doodle. It features Uruguay's national bird, the southern lapwing carrying the blue and white striped ribbons and the Sun of May.

September

September 5

The doodle on today's Google's homepage celebrates the 187th birth anniversary of the birth John Wisden. Wisden was an English cricketer and creator of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, which is often referred to as the 'Bible of cricket'.[42]

September 18

On September 18, 2013 a Google Doodle was used to mark the 194th anniversary of Léon Foucault's birthday.[43][44]

September 27

On September 27, 1998 the first version of the Google search engine was launched. This is marked on the Google homepage with a Google Doodle featuring a Piñata game.

October

October 1

On October 1, 2013, Independence Day of Nigeria was observed with a Google Doodle. It features a batik in the colours of the national flag

October 20

Google Kenya celebrated Kenya's jubilee year by displaying an artistic Google Doodle bearing the Kenyan flag superimposed with the name "Google".The doodle was designed by Esther Wambui Githinji,a high school student,after emerging the winner of Doodle 4 Google competition held in Kenyan high schools.[45]

October 21

Google Doodle celebrated the 88th birthday of the Cuban singer and performer Celia Cruz.

November

November 4

Google paid tribute to Shakuntala Devi's 84th birthday with a doodle that resembles a calculator. Devi was an Indian woman who was known for her amazing calculating abilities and has been dubbed as the world's fastest 'human computer'.[46]

November 7

Google India celebrated 125th birth anniversary of C. V. Raman, an Indian physicist whose ground breaking work in the field of light scattering earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930. The doodle featured his portrait along with light rays emitting from a source.[47]

November 14

The search engine giant has featured the work of Gayatri Ketharaman to celebrate Children's Day. Keeping in with their traditional Children's Day celebratory doodle, Google has featured the work of an Indian student as their doodle of the day today.[48]

November 22–23

Google celebrates the 50-year anniversary of Doctor Who with a row of the eleven Doctors holding the iconic Sonic screwdriver. Clicking the doodle starts a small video game with a "8-bit retro" visual style. The object of the game is to collect each of the letters in "Google" by traversing labyrinths and avoiding Daleks, Cybermen and Weeping Angels, foes known from the Doctor Who episodes.[49] A two-day doodle for all countries except one, the doodle was withheld from Google's U.S. site until November 23 due to the fact that the 50th anniversary of the death of John F. Kennedy occurred on November 22.

November 27

Google UAE celebrated Dubai's winning bid for Expo 2020 putting the bid's logo on its site.[50]

December

December 2

The 90th birthday of Maria Callas was celebrated on December 2, 2013.[51]

December 3

The 180th birthday of Carlos Finlay was celebrated on December 3, 2013.[52]

December 9

The 107th birthday of Grace Hopper was celebrated on December 9, 2013.[53]

December 21

December 25

Google celebrated the 83rd birthday of poet Salah Jahin.[56]

December 27

Google celebrated German astronomer Johannes Kepler's 442nd birthday.[57]

December 31

Google did a doodle for New Year's Eve showing the numbers 2,0,1,3 with 4 in the corner waiting for the year 2014.

References

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  2. ↑ Brown, Matt (January 9, 2013). "Google Doodle Marks 150 Years of the London Underground". Londonist. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Republic Day India: Google doodles a tiger with Google stripes". New Delhi, India: CNN IBN. January 26, 2013. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Australia Day 2013 – Google Doodle". 3D Car Shows. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Canadian penny honoured with Google Doodle". Toronto: TheStar.com. February 4, 2013. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Sri Lanka Independence Day 2013".
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  10. ↑ "Asteroid Google Doodle withdrawn in wake of Russia meteor strike". The Daily Telegraph (London). February 15, 2013. Retrieved February 22, 2013.
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  14. ↑ Gupta, Prachi (March 31, 2013). "Google celebrates Cesar Chavez, not Easter". Salon.com. Retrieved August 22, 2013.
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