Portal:Current events/2005 August 20

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• Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the President of Indonesia, ordered the national intelligence agency and police to investigate after a power outage left about 100 million people without electricity. (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. [https://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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