2013 Event Nearly 500,000 people been evacuated from India's Odisha and Andhra Pradesh states in preparation for Cyclone Phailin 2013 Event In preparation for plans to step down in 2015, the President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir gives an order to release all political prisoners 2013 Event In preparation for the Scottish independence referendum, the Scottish Government agrees to alter the wording in its referendum because members expressed concerns that it might lead people to vote for it 2000 Event After years of preparation for Y2K, only minor computer-related problems were reported (a problem with Hotmail, with a nuclear power plant in Japan and with apartment heating in Korea) 1991 Death George Sperti Sperti, inventor (Preparation H), dies at 91 1983 Event Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation of STS-9 1982 Event Columbia mated with SRBs and external tank in preparation for STS-5 1982 Event Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation for STS-4
