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* [[Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono]], the [[List of Presidents of Indonesia|President]] of [[Indonesia]], ordered the national intelligence agency and police to investigate after a [[power outage]] left about 100 million people without [[electricity]]. [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Indonesian_blackout_caused_by_lack_of_generation_capacity (Wikinews)]
* [[Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono]], the [[List of Presidents of Indonesia|President]] of [[Indonesia]], ordered the national intelligence agency and police to investigate after a [[power outage]] left about 100 million people without [[electricity]]. [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Indonesian_blackout_caused_by_lack_of_generation_capacity (Wikinews)]
* The original handwritten [[manuscript]] of a paper by [[Albert Einstein]], entitled "Quantum theory of the monatomic ideal gas" ([[Bose-Einstein condensate]]), dated December [[1924]], has been found in the archives of [[Leiden University]]'s [[Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics]]. It was considered one of Einstein's last great breakthroughs. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050821/ap_on_sc/einstein_manuscript (AP via Yahoo! News)(Link dead as of 20:43, [[14 January]] [[2007]] (UTC))] Photographs of the 16-page manuscript and a description of how a student stumbled upon it were posted on the institute's Web site. [http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/history/Einstein_archive/ (Leiden University)]
* The original handwritten [[manuscript]] of a paper by [[Albert Einstein]], entitled "Quantum theory of the monatomic ideal gas" ([[Bose-Einstein condensate]]), dated December [[1924]], has been found in the archives of [[Leiden University]]'s [[Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics]]. It was considered one of Einstein's last great breakthroughs. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050821/ap_on_sc/einstein_manuscript (AP via Yahoo! News)(Link dead as of 20:43, [[14 January]] [[2007]] (UTC))] Photographs of the 16-page manuscript and a description of how a student stumbled upon it were posted on the institute's Web site. [http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/history/Einstein_archive/ (Leiden University)]
[[Northwest Airlines]] mechanics went on strike.

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[[Category:Days in 2005]]

Revision as of 20:27, 13 July 2007

August 20 2005 (Saturday)

Northwest Airlines mechanics went on strike.