Today’s Google logo is a tribute to Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald who was born in Newport News, Virginia on this day in 1917. After taking the stage at Apollo Theater’s amateur night in 1934, Fitzgerald went on to become one of the most famous Jazz singers in the world, winning 18 Grammy Awards and selling more than 40 million albums.
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Today Google is honoring the life of Leonhard Euler, a renowned Swiss mathematician who is credited with founding the concepts of most modern math including the notion of a mathematical function. Today on April 15, 1707 – 306 years ago today, Leonhard Euler was born in Basel, Switzerland. 76 years later, he died on September 18, 1783 in Saint Petersburg Russia.
Google and math go well together, don’t you think?
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Mark Zuckerberg’s first Anglefire website has been discovered.
You’ve come a long way, baby.
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Maria Sibylla Merian, an entomologist and scientific historian who painted the plants and insects that she studied, is being honored today with a new Google logo.
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In case you missed it earlier, Google’s doodle today celebrated the life of Cesar Chavez, although some on the Google Web Search Forums were not enthusiastic to see the logo.
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Yahoo! Incorporated On This Date In 1995. Did You Know It (YAHOO) Was An Acronym?
Happy 18th Birthday, Yahoo!
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Today’s Ferris Wheel Google doodle combine’s Valentine’s Day with the “celebration of love with the birthday of the engineer whose mechanical invention has filled so many hearts with wonder.” Read more about the history of George Ferris and the inspiration behind today’s special logo here.
