Google Doodle

Google Doodle celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which is the first federal holiday named after a modern private citizen.

The game was officially copyrighted in Mexico on this day 106 years ago.

The veteran and artist of the Google Doodle wants to teach children about the importance of honoring their duty.

A profile on Will Rogers, who is honored in today's Google Doodle on what would have been his 140th birthday.

The Halloween Google Doodle features an owl, a tarantula, an octopus, a jaguar, a bat, and a wolf playing trick or treat.

Though she only lived to the age of 30, Sylvia Plath made an indelible mark on the literary world.

A profile on Wanda Rutkiewicz, the third woman to reach Everest's summit and one of the most accomplished mountaineers in history.

A profile on Maria Firmina dos Reis, a Brazilian abolitionist writer and educator, who campaigned to end slavery.

Google Doodles have become a signature of the search engine, with its very first a simple stick figure symbolizing the Burning Man Festival in 1998.

The nachos we've all come to know and love weren't always a staple of global menus, and we have Ignacio "Nacho" García to thank.

Dr. René Favaloro led the way on heart bypass surgery, saving countless lives since performing the first successful operation in 1967.

June 21 marks the longest day and the shortest night in the northern hemisphere.

The popular deep fried dish is the subject of today's Google Doodle.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.

The Greek cytopathologist worked with his wife to develop the life-saving medical test.

Lucy Wills changed the face of preventive prenatal care for women everywhere.

The "Bauhaus style" was also known as the "International style."

She specialized in the measurement of light and radiation.

"My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are," Masekela once said.

The search engine is marking the shift towards longer days in the northern hemisphere.

The Japanese inventor born in 1926 transformed the way the blind navigate cities.

British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee was speaking as the web turned 30. His work was memorialized in pixelated form in today's Google Doodle.

Fellow mathematicians described her as a brilliant scientist who dominated gatherings "not through bluster and noise, but by virtue of her genius, will, charm, and charisma."

Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge was a German chemist who made a number of important discoveries, not least the isolation of caffeine in coffee.

The festival commemorates the beginning of the year of the pig.

Today's Google Doodle features a winter-themed animation.

Klee was one of the foremost artists of the 20th century.

Accepting the Nobel Prize in 1966, German Jewish poet and dramatist Nelly Sachs said: "I represent the tragedy of the Jewish people."

"They are the most outstanding feature in my life," Dr. Fe del Mundo said of the many children she helped during her lifelong career as a pediatrician.

Google is today celebrating scientists' attempt to communicate with intelligent life that may be lurking beyond our planet.