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 125th Birthday of Walter Gropius

  • May 20th, 2008
  • 12:31 am

Google displayed this logo on its home pages for on May 18, 2008 for the 125th Birthday of Walter Gropius.

Walter Gropius

Walter Adolph Georg Dorphios (May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969) was a German architect and founder of Bauhaus who along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, he is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of “modern” architecture.

 Vote for Best Google Doodles, 2008

  • May 17th, 2008
  • 12:03 am

This year’s Doodle 4 Google art competition invited students in grades K-12 across the U.S. to redesign the Google logo around the theme “What if…?”.

What If Doodle 4 Google Competition

 Google logo for First Laser, 2008

  • May 16th, 2008
  • 11:16 pm

Google displays this logo across all its home pages today (May 16th, 2008) The Day of The First Demonstrated Laser.

First Laser

The first working laser was demonstrated on May 16, 1960 by Theodore Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories.
- Wikipedia

 Florence Nightingale’s Birthday, 2008

  • May 12th, 2008
  • 2:47 pm

On May 12th, 2008 Google UK celebrated Florence Nightingale’s Birthday by displaying this logo:

Florence Nightingale's Birthday

Florence Nightingale, who came to be known as “The Lady with the Lamp”, was a pioneer of modern nursing, a writer and a noted statistician. [Wikipedia]

 Mother’s Day Wishes, 2008

  • May 11th, 2008
  • 1:09 pm

Google wishing a Happy Mother’s Day to all Moms today, on the eve of Mother’s Day, May 11th, 2007
Mother’s Day is celebrated on the ‘Second Sunday of May’.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mothers Day to all Moms!!!

You might want to checkout the previous mothers day logos:
Middle East 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 and 2000.

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