The Wedding of Prince William of Wales and Catherine Middleton

http://www.google.co.uk/logos/2011/royalwedding11-hp.png

http://s.ytimg.com/yt/img/doodles/royal_wedding-vflZ8V2om.png

The wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine "Kate" Middleton took place at Westminster Abbey on Friday, 29 April 2011 at 11:00 am BST (UTC+1). Prince William, who is second in the British line of Succesion to Queen Elizabeth II, first met Middleton in 2001, while both were students at the University of St Andrews. Their engagement, which began on 20 October 2010, was announced on 16 November 2010.

Following the wedding, the couple intend to continue residing on the Isle of Anglesey in North Wales, where Prince William is based as an RAF Search and Rescue pilot.

St. George's Day 2011

http://www.google.co.uk/logos/2011/stgeorgesday11-hp.jpg

Richard Trevithick's 240th birthday

http://www.google.co.uk/logos/2011/trevithick11-hp.jpg

Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833) was a Cornish inventor and mining engineer. His most significant success was the high pressure steam engine and he also built the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive. On 21 February 1804 the world's first locomotive-hauled railway journey took place as Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. [Read more on Wikipedia]

Richard Trevithick, by John Linnell (1792-1882)

St David's Day

Source: http://www.google.co.uk/logos/2011/stdavid11-hp.jpg

Ernest Shackleton's birthday

Source: http://www.google.co.uk/logos/2011/shackleton11-hp.jpg

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish explorer who was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. His first experience of the polar regions was as third officer on Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, from which he was sent home early on health grounds. Determined to make amends for this perceived personal failure, he returned to Antarctica in 1907 as leader of the Nimrod Expedition. In January 1909 he and three companions made a southern march which established a record Farthest South latitude at 88°23'S, 97 geographical miles (114 statute miles, 190 km) from the South Pole, by far the closest convergence in exploration history up to that time. For this achievement, Shackleton was knighted by King Edward VII on his return home. [Read more on Wikipedia]

Robert Burns's birthday

Source: http://www.google.co.uk/logos/2011/robertburns11-hp.jpg

Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) (also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, Robden of Solway Firth, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as simply The Bard) was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a "light" Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these his political or civil commentary is often at its most blunt. [Read more on Wikipedia]

The best-known portrait of Burns

St. Andrew's Day

Source: http://www.google.co.uk/logos/2010/st-andrews-day10-hpi.gif

Remembrance Day

Google Australia's homepage

Google puts a poppy flower on their UK, Canada, and Australia's homepages to commemorate the fallen of the First World War and all wars and armed conflicts since then.

Source: http://www.google.com/images/icons/hpcg/poppy_red_42.gif

a blue conrflower on Google France's homepage:

Source: http://www.google.fr/images/icons/hpcg/cornflower-bluepurple_42.png

and carnation flower on Google Turkey's homepage:

Source: http://www.google.com.tr/images/icons/hpcg/carnation-r42.gif

Mary Shelley's 213th Birthday

Source: http://www.google.com/logos/2010/maryshelley2010-hp.jpg

Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. [Read more on Wikipedia]

Doodle4Google World Cup Winner

United Kingdom - Source: http://www.google.com/logos/d4g_worldcup10_uk-hp.jpg

Korea - Source: http://www.google.com/logos/d4g_worldcup10_ko-hp.jpg

Election Day in U.K.

Source: http://www.google.com/logos/election10_uk-hp.gif

St. George's Day and Shakespeare's Day

Source: http://www.google.com/logos/st_george10-hp.gif

Mother's Day

Source: http://www.google.com/logos/mother10-hp.gif

St. David's Day

Source: http://www.google.com/logos/stdavids10-hp.gif

Doodle4Google: My Hero

My Hero by Sophie Redford
Source: http://www.google.com/logos/d4gwinner09_uk-hp.gif

St. Andrew's Day

Source: http://www.google.com/logos/standrewsday09-hp.gif

Remembrance Day

Source: http://www.google.com/logos/poppy09.gif

150th Anniversary of Big Ben

Source: http://www.google.com/logos/bigben09.gif

Big Ben is the nickname for the great bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, and is often extended to refer to the clock or the clock tower as well. It is the largest four-faced chiming clock and the third-tallest free-standing clock tower in the world. It celebrated its 150th anniversary in May 2009, during which celebratory events took place. The clock first ticked on 31 May 1859. [Read more on Wikipedia]