Marsha is credited as one of the key leaders of the 1969 Stonewall uprising-widely regarded as a critical turning point for the international LGBTQ+ rights movement
He later published his findings in a book titled 'Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever'
Kaifi Azmi's legendary works such as Pakeezah's Chalte Chalte, Koi Yeh Kaise Bataye from Arth and Yeh Duniya Yeh Mehfil have gone down as notable contributions in Urdu and Hindi language
Google on Sunday honoured Junko Tabei, the first Japanese woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on her 80th birthday with a cool animated doodle.She is also the first woman to ascend all Seven Summits by climbing the highest peak on every continent.The doodle depicts a graph along with seven ice-capped mountains which symbolise all the "seven summits"--the highest peaks such as Everest, Aconcagua, Denali, Kilimanjaro, Vinson, Elbrus, Puncak Jaya, on each continent that was climbed by Tabei.Apart from the mountains, the doodle also shows a moving animated cartoon representing Tabei.Google in its notes stated that Tabei kept her passion and dream to scale new heights alive even while battling with peritoneal cancer in 2012.Born on September 22 in 1939, Tabei was raised in Miharu, a small town in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture. She explored the joy of climbing at the age of 10 during a class trip to Mount Nasu. Though she was the first woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest, Tabei
To pay homage to the father of India's space programme, ISRO has also announced an award in his name on his 100th birthday
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon
In 1961, he received the Max Planck Medal and the Fritz London Prize. Landau died on April 1, 1968
The WWW is the primary tool billions of people today use to interact on the Internet
Amrish Puri appeared in more than 200 films in over half a dozen languages
There's little danger of any Geminids landing on earth as it normally disintegrates in the earth's atmosphere
Their three-minute radio message was aimed at a cluster of stars in the constellation Hercules 25,000 light years away from Earth, Google said in a statement
She is also credited with re-invigorating the culture of Indian handicrafts, handlooms and theatre
The word Chipko means 'to stick' or 'to hug' and the name of the movement has been derived from these words
Google Doodle pays homage to legendary Kathak dancer Sitara Devi
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The doodle shows Rafi recording in a studio, while actors are lip syncing onscreen
The doodle's final panel includes a past photo of the reunited family as well as a pile of wrapped gifts that hint at the series' next installments
Shantaram was born on November 18, 1901 in a Marathi Jain family in Kolhapur in Maharashtra
The doodle showed Desnavi sitting in the middle and writing, the letters of the search engine were also given a calligraphic touch.