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November 24: On this date in 1838, Green-Wood stockholders held their first meeting and elected their first trustees.

November 23: On this date in 1839, Francois Gouraud arrived in America as the emissary of Louis Daguerre, to introduce his photographic process to this country.

November 22: After actress Mae West died on this date in 1980, it falsely was reported that she would be interred at Green-Wood; reporters flocked to Green-Wood, while she was being interred at Cypress Hills.

November 21: John Gill Valentine, major league baseball player in 1883 for the Columbus Buckeyes and umpire from 1884 through 1888, was born on this date in 1855 and died in 1903.

November 20: The musical “Cabaret,” lyrics by Fred Ebb and music by John Kander, debuted at the Broadhurst Theater on this day in 1966.

November 19: Actor William J. Florence, who helped found the Ancient and Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, died on this date in 1891.

November 18: George Law, the vice presidential candidate of the Know Nothing Party in 1856, died on this date in 1881.

November 17: Rear Admiral George H. Cooper, who served on the African Slave Trade Patrol and during the Civil War, died on this date in 1891.

November 16: John Greenwood, Revolutionary War fife boy who grew up to be George Washington’s favorite dentist, creating his false teeth, died on this date in 1819.

November 15: On this date in 1940, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, engineered by Ole Singstad, opened to traffic.