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Google is celebrating legendary architect Antoni Gaudi's 161st birthday with a doodle showcasing some of his work. The doodle features six of his renowned works including Casa Batlo and Casa Mila in a miniature collage. Known as the father of modern Catalan architecture, Antoni Gaudi was born on June 25, 1852 in Reus, part of Catalonia in Spain. He grew up in the same region and was enrolled in Piarists school, following which he worked as an apprentice in a textile mill. He went to Barcelona to study teaching at Convent del Carmel. Gaudi then studied architecture at the Llotja School and the Barcelona Higher School of Architecture, and graduated in 1878. He also completed his compulsory military service. He also pursued a job as a draftsman to finance his education. Gaudi started his career by designing lampposts for the Placa Reial in Barcelona,  Girossi newsstands, and the Cooperativa Obrera Mataronense building, though he came into the lime ...

German scientist Julius Richard Petri's 161st birth anniversary has inspired to Google to dedicate an interactive doodle showcasing his invention, the petri dish, in full action. The interactive doodle features coloured petri dishes replacing the Google logo complete with the play button. After pressing the play button, a hand appears with a swab applying a solution on each of the dishes followed by the appearance of bacteria on each one of them. When you hover the mouse pointer on the dishes, they show the origin of the bacteria. The dishes show bacteria present in worn socks, door knob, keyboard, pet dog, plant, and a wet sponge complete with animated images. Julius Richard Petri was born on May 31, 1853 in Barmen (German Confederation). He studied medicine at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Academy for Military Physicians and got his medical degree in 1876. Petri further pursued his studies at the Charite Hospital in Berlin and served as a military physician till 1882, becoming a res...

American graphic designer Saul Bass has been given a video tribute by Google in the form of a doodle, on the occasion of his 93rd birth anniversary.  The doodle features a video showcasing some of the best film credits designed by Bass. The elaborate video is a mix of these credits in sequence set to the tunes of Unsquare Dance, a musical piece written by the American jazz composer Dave Brubeck. He has been credit for designing some of the most acclaimed film credit sequences for film makers like Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese and movies like  Carmen Jones, Man With the Golden Arm, Psycho  and  Vertigo , among others. His last work was Martin Scorsese's Casino. Saul Bass was born in 1920  in Bronx, New York (US). He studied at the Art Students League part time and attended night classes at Brooklyn College. He started his career in the 1940s with print work for film ads. He got his first break in 1954 when he designed the movie pos...

The doodle on the homepage shows Google's logo in the shape of building blocks with several men doing their jobs. Google salutes workers all over the world by dedicating a doodle to the workers on the ocassion of International Workers' Day, 2013, on Wednesday. Also known as Labour Day, May 1 is an annual holiday to celebrate the achievements of workers throughout the year. The doodle on the homepage shows Google's logo in the shape of building blocks with several men doing their jobs. The doodle features an IT professional on her computer, a gardener watering a tree, a painter giving the letter 'O' a paint job and a plumber fixing a leak around the letter 'E'. We can also see a helicopter hovering above the second 'G' and a satellite...

Ella Fitzgerald is the inspiration behind Thursday's Google doodle. Fitzgerald is famously known as "Queen of Jazz", "The First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella". Fitzgerald was born in Newport News, Virginia, but her parents separated shortly after her birth, and she moved to New York with her mother. Ella made her singing debut at 17, at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York, and started getting a loyal following. After winning a local talent contest, she got the chance to perform for a week with the Tiny Bradshaw band at the Harlem Opera House. There, she met drummer and bandleader Chick Webb, who offered her the opportunity to test with his band when they played a dance at Yale University. Ella Fitzgerald became a regular feature in Webb's Orchestra and recorded several hit songs with them, including  Love and Kisses  and  (If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini) . Her 1938 version of the nursery rhyme,  A...

Earth Day 2013 is the subject of Monday's Google doodle across the world. Earth Day was first celebrated in the US in 1970. The idea was the brainchild Gaylord Nelson, then a US Senator from Wisconsin. Nelson conceived the idea after witnessing the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California. Inspired by the student movement that was going on at the time against the Vietnam war, Nelson dreamt of movement that would make people think about air and water pollution and force environmental protection onto the national political agenda. Senator Gaylord Nelson announced the idea for a "national teach-in on the environment" and persuaded Pete McCloskey, a conservation-minded Republican Congressman, to serve as his co-chair. He also got Denis Hayes on board as a national coordinator for the event. Hayes did a lot of the ground work, building a national staff of 85 to promote events across the land. The first ever Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970. A...

India's first passenger train journey is the subject of Tuesday's Google doodle. The day marks 160 years since the a passenger train set out on its maiden journey in India. The history of rail transport in India goes all the way back to 1832, when a plan for a rail system in India was first put forward. The first rail line in the Indian sub-continent came up near Chintadripet Bridge (in modern-day Chennai) in 1836 as an "experimental line". In 1837, a 5.6 km long rail line was established between Red Hills and the stone quarries near St. Thomas Mount. However, it wasn't until 1853-54, when two new railway companies, Great Indian Peninsular Railway (GIPR) and East Indian Railway (EIR), were created, that the railways as we known it today began to take shape. GIPR was asked to setup near Mumbai, and EIR was to setup a railway line near Kolkata (Calcutta at the time). Thus, the first train in India became opera...