Milestones

DIED

A.C. Nielsen Jr., 92, who followed his father as head of the A.C. Nielsen Co., which created the first TV-audience-measuring system, the Nielsen ratings, in 1950.

PLEADED

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the underwear bomber, guilty to eight charges, including trying to blow up an airliner on Dec. 25, 2009.

MARRIED

Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell, an American heiress to a motor-freight fortune; the former Beatle's third wedding took place Oct. 9 at London's Old Marylebone Town Hall, the site of his first wedding, with Linda Eastman in 1969.

DIED

Bert Jansch, 67, a guitarist whose amalgamations of folk, jazz, blues and...

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