DIED
Singer-songwriter Pete Moore, an original member of the hitmaking Motown group the Miracles, at 79.
WON
The Miss Universe crown, by South Africa’s Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, who wants to use her reign to champion HIV/AIDS and self-defense causes.
CROSSED
The $10,000 mark, for the first time, by Bitcoin. The value of the cryptocurrency soared from under $1,000 at the end of 2016 to more than $10,267.90 on Nov. 28.
DECLARED
Complicit, as Dictionary.com’s word of the year for 2017, after political scandal (and an SNL sketch) led to an uptick in lookups of the word.
ANNOUNCED
Meredith Corp.’s planned acquisition of Time Inc., publisher of TIME, Fortune and People, among other titles, for $2.8 billion. The deal, partly financed by a $650 million investment by Koch Equity Development, would expand…