HISTORY MOMENTS The Idaho State Historical Society reports that during this week in history: Four members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition entered what is now the state of Idaho on August 12, 1805, when they crossed the continental divide by following an old Indian trail through Lemhi Pass. Captain Meriwether Lewis wrote that day in his journal, "We proceeded on to the top of the dividing ridge, from which I discovered immense ranges of high mountains still to the west of us, with their tops partially covered with snow. I now descended the mountain about 3/4 of a mile, which I found much steeper than on the opposite side, to a handsome bold running creek of cold, clear water. Here I first tasted the water of the great Columbia River." · The Social Security Act became law on August 14, 1935. Born on December 28, 1895, in Moscow, Idaho, Carol Ryrie Brink became known as one of the most prolific and enduring of all Idaho authors. Over a lifetime of eighty-five years, Brink wrote more than thirty fiction and nonfiction books, as well as several plays, for children and adults. She received the Newbery Award in 1936 and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1959 for Caddie Woodlawn. Brink won the Friends of American Writers Award in 1956 for The Headland and the Irvin Kerlan Award in 1978 for Four Girls on a Homestead. President Ronald Reagan signed a bill on August 10, 1988, that awarded $20,000 to each survivor of the Japanese-American internment. Idaho was home to the Minidoka Internment Camp, near Rupert, which once had as many as 10,000 occupants during World War II.