On November 20, 1750, Phillip Kefauver purchased 67 acres of land southwest of Middletown from Caleb Touchstone for 40 pounds, to be used as a church by both the Lutheran and Reformed congregations. All but two acres of this land was eventually lost by reason of a law which, at the time, prohibited a church from owning more than two acres. On November 20, 1798, John Frederick Amelung, who brought artisans to Frederick County from Germany to make what has become known as some of the finest glass made in colonial America, died at the home of his daughter, Sophia Amelung Volkman, on Bank Street in Baltimore. He was 57. On November 20, 1874, Lloyd T. Duval, who practiced medicine in Point of Rocks, died. He was born in Frederick County in 1823. On November 20, 2002, Mayor Jennifer Dougherty and the Frederick City Board of Aldermen voted in executive session to sell a 10-foot wide strip of land in Memorial Grounds Park, at the northwest corner of North Bentz Street and West Second Street, to private interests because it contained a monument of The Ten Commandments. The American Civil Liberties Union had filed suit in August asking the court to order the removal of the monument because its location on government owned property violated the U. S. Constitution. If anyone can add information to these History Moments, or would like to suggest an item for another calendar day, please contact me privately. John W. Ashbury Wasps1965@comcast.net <mailto:Wasps1965@comcast.net>