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[Saumya]

Gauhar Jaan's 145th Birthday

Gauhar Jaan (born Angelina Yeoward, 26 June 1873 – 17 January 1930) was an Indian singer and dancer from Calcutta. She was one of the first performers to record music on 78 rpm records in India, and released by Gramophone Company of India. Having recorded more than 600 records in more than ten languages between 1902 to 1920, Gauhar Jahan is credited with popularising Hindustani classical music such as thumri, dadra, kajri, tarana during the period.

[Saumya]

Google celebrated Meena Kumari's birthday on August 01, 2018.

Meena Kumari (1 August 1933 – 31 March 1972), born Mahjabeen Bano, was an Indian film actress, singer and poet under the pseudonym "Naaz". Popularly known as The Tragedy Queen, she is also called Female Guru Dutt of Hindi films and is often remembered as the Cinderella of Indian films.

[Ek Kanya]

Google celebrates India's Independence Day.

[Saumya]

M. Visvesvaraya : 15 September, Engineers' Day

Sir Mokshagundam Vishweshvaraya KCIE, FASc, popularly known as Sir MV; 15 September 1861 – 12 April 1962) was an Indian engineer, scholar, statesman, and the 19th Diwan of Mysore, who served from 1912 to 1918. He received India's highest honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1955. He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the British Indian Empire (KCIE) by King George V for his contributions to the public good. 15 September is celebrated as Engineer's Day in India in his memory.

[Saumya]

15th September, Enginners' Day

[Saumya]

Google Doodle for October 01, 2018 was 100th Birthday of Govindappa Venkataswamy.

Govindappa Venkataswamy (1 October 1918 – 7 July 2006) was an Indian ophthalmologist who dedicated his life to eliminate needless blindness. He was the founder and former chairman of Aravind Eye Hospitals. He is best known for developing a high quality, high volume, low-cost service delivery model that has restored sight to millions of people. Since inception, Aravind Eye Care System (a registered non-profit organisation) has seen over 55 million patients, and performed over 6.8 million surgeries. Over 50% of the organisation's patients pay either nothing or highly subsidised rates. Its scale and self-sustainability prompted a 1993 Harvard Business Case Study on the Aravind model.

[Ek Kanya]

Celebrating Sake Dean Mahomed : Sake Dean Mahomed was a Anglo-Indian traveller, surgeon and entrepreneur who was one of the most notable early non-European immigrants to the Western World. He introduced Indian cuisine and shampoo baths to Europe, where he offered therapeutic massage. He was also the first Indian to publish a book in English.

Born in 1759 in Patna, then part of the Bengal Presidency, Sake Dean Mahomed came from Buxar. His father, who belonged to the traditional Nai (barber) caste, was in the employment of the East India Company. He had learned much of alchemy and understood the techniques used to produce various alkali, soaps and shampoo. He later described the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II and the cities of Allahabad and Delhi in rich detail and also made note of the faded glories of the Mughal Empire.

[vikas]

Republic Day, India. January 26, 2019.

[Saumya]

Google Doodle celebrates Madhubala's 86th Birthday, 14th February, 2019
Madhubala (born Mumtaz Jehan Begum Dehlavi; 14 February 1933 – 23 February 1969), was an Indian film actress who appeared in Hindi films. She was active between 1942 and 1964, and was known for her beauty, personality, and sensitive portrayals of tragic women

[amey katkar]

12th March 2019 | 30th Anniversary of the WWW

Suppose all the information stored on computers everywhere were linked. Suppose I could program my computer to create a space in which everything could be linked to everything.
– Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web

[Ek Kanya]

Earth Day 2019, 22 April 2019.

[Ek Kanya]

18 May 2019 : Omar Khayyam's 971st Birthday. Omar Khayyam, 18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131, was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet. He was born in Nishapur, in northeastern Iran, and spent most of his life near the court of the Karakhanid and Seljuq rulers in the period which witnessed the First Crusade.

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Republic Day January 26, 2020

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Republic Day January 26, 2020
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Illustrated by Meroo Seth.

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Feb 29 -- Once in four years! Leap Day Doodle.