August 20, 2005 (Saturday)
- 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. (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. (Leiden University)
- Northwest Airlines mechanics went on strike.
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