Actress Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy after a California judge orders her to pay $7.4 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the movie Boxing Helena. As a result, Bassinger loses the town that she purchased in 1989, Braselton, Georgia, to her partner in the deal, the pension fund of Chicago-based Ameritech Corp.[?]
... signal[?] "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS."
February 7 - A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 ...