HISTORY MOMENTS The Idaho State Historical Society reports that during this week in history: The first herd of purebred Herefords ever brought to the Northwest from Kansas City arrived in Lewiston on February 23, 1913. The picture which won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize in News Photography, and which is perhaps the most reproduced photograph in history, was taken on February 23, 1945, when six Marines raised the American Flag on Iwo Jima. Challis, Idaho, was put under quarantine on February 24, 1930, for fear of an epidemic of meningitis. All public places were closed and travel restricted. On February 28, 1866, Idaho Territorial Secretary Horace Gilson quietly slipped away to Hong Kong with $41,062 in Territorial funds. Idaho won a long, uncertain fight on February 29, 1888, when the U.S House Committee on Territories decided unanimously to preserve Idaho rather than dividing its land mass between Washington and Nevada. Lead and silver prices collapsed on March 1, 1893, and forced the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines to shut down. The rest of the major producers followed suite. On March 1, 1872, Yellowstone became the world's first National Park when President Ulysses S. Grant signed legislation creating it.