Google Doodle Honors Yosemite Park, But It's Closed in Government Shutdown

It's a historic day for one of the most beautiful places on Earth, Yosemite National Park.

On this day in 1890, the government decided to "set apart certain tracts of land in the State of California as forest reservations," establishing the hallowed land as a national park. On the same day Google is honoring Yosemite's 123rd birthday with its doodle on the homepage, the park is closed because of the U.S. government shutdown.

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The shutdown began at 12:00 a.m. on Tuesday after the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate could not agree on a plan to keep the government funded beyond the end of the fiscal year. The two houses clashed over the controversial Affordable Care Act, better known as "Obamacare." Read more...

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