* May 19 – Colin Chapman, Founder of Lotus Cars ( d. 1982 )

Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman CBE ( 19 May 1928 – 16 December 1982 ) was an influential English design engineer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry, and founder of Lotus Cars.

* Microsoft, Lotus, Intel, and AST Research ( July 19, 1988 ).

The first Continental was won by Dan Gurney, driving a 2. 7L Coventry Climax-powered Lotus 19.

Consequently, Lotus put an enormous effort ( for such a small firm ) into testing the car ; over a two-year period 19 crash cars and 42 development vehicles were built, logging nearly a million test miles in locations from Arizona to the Arctic.

He demonstrated the Lotus 102 again at the Lotus Festival held at Brands Hatch on August 19, 2012.

Stirling Moss won the two-heat event in a Lotus 19.

Senna was out on his third run with only minutes left before the end of qualifying in his Lotus 97T, powered by a special qualifying Renault engine rumored to be putting out some, and stunned everyone with a time of 1: 19. 843, 7 / 10ths faster than Mansell to grab his 7th pole position of the season.

Mansell won by 19 seconds over Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna driving a Lotus 98T.

Jo Bonnier drove the Birdcage to 2nd OA behind Moss in the first Lotus 19.

Mario Andretti returned home as the newly-crowned World Champion and put his Lotus 79 on the pole before a record crowd of over 150, 000 fans, but Ferrari's Carlos Reutemann completed a sweep of the two United States races in 1978 by finishing 19 seconds ahead of Australian Alan Jones.

Drivers went off the circuit everywhere leaving only 8 finishers with crashers including World Champions Nelson Piquet who drove his Lotus into the back of Piercarlo Ghinzani's Osella on lap 19, and Ayrton Senna who spectacularly drove his McLaren-Honda into the back of Martin Brundle's Brabham-Judd while some 30 seconds in the lead on lap 13.

His most notable progeny include: Bite the Bullet ( 19 starts 5-4-2 for US $ 216, 809 ; sire of 19 SW in Australia ), Spectacular Love ( won G1 Belmont Futurity Stakes ), Spectacular Sue, Maison Close, Lay Down, Festivity, Spectacular Joke, Princess Pietrina, Lotus Pool, Esprit d ’ Etoile, Legal Bid and Sweettuc.

It was replaced in 1960 by the Lotus 19.

A Lotus Formula One car driven by Stirling Moss won the marque's first Grand Prix in 1960 at Monaco in a Lotus 18 entered by privateer Rob Walker.

* Lotus 18 ( 1960 – 1961 ): First mid-engined Lotus single seater — Formula Junior / F2 / F1

He competed in the Le Mans 24 Hour race in 1959, 1960 and 1961, finishing second in class in 1959 driving a Lotus Elite, and finishing third overall in 1960, driving an Aston Martin DBR1.

New South Wales driver Leo Geoghegan won the 1960 Australian GT Championship at the wheel of a Lotus Elite.

In 1960, at the age of 26, Surtees switched from motorcycles to cars full time, making his Formula 1 debut racing for Lotus in the Monaco Grand Prix in Monte Carlo.

In the 1960 Formula One season, Moss took the top step of the podium at Monaco, winning in Rob Walker's Coventry-Climax-powered Lotus 18.

He also drove in the 1960 Le Mans 24 Hours, sharing a Lotus Elite with John Wagstaff.

The successful mid-engined Lotus 18 of 1960 no longer had the high bodywork behind the driver's seat on which to mount the tops of the struts.

After a frustrating year in 1959 spent with his own Formula Two Cooper, he received an invitation to run his Lotus 18 as a second works car for 1960.

In 1960 he raced in Formula Junior, competing in a works Lotus at the British Grand Prix.

His racing career effectively ended when his steering column weld failed on his Lotus 18 in the 1960 Belgian Grand Prix at.

" Orders poured in for the Elva but when the 1960 season commenced Lotus and Cooper had things under control and disillusioned Elva owners watched the rear-engined car disappearing round corners, knowing they had backed the wrong horse.

The MX-5 was conceived as a small roadster – with light weight and minimal mechanical complexity limited only by legal and safety requirements ; technologically modern, but a philosophically direct descendant of small British and Italian roadsters of the 1960s such as the Triumph Spitfire, MG MGB, Fiat 124 Sport Spider, Alfa Romeo Spider and Lotus Elan.

* 1983 – Flying Lotus, American electronic music producer

* 1975 – Jamie Spaniolo, American rapper ( Twiztid, Dark Lotus, Psychopathic Rydas, and House of Krazees )

Steed's signature cars were vintage 1926 – 1928 Bentley racing or town cars, including Blower Bentleys and Bentley Speed Sixes ( although, uniquely, in " The Thirteenth Hole " he drives a Vauxhall 30 / 98 ), while Peel drove a sporty Lotus Elan convertible which, like her clothes, emphasized her independence and vitality.

* 1796 – 1804: The White Lotus Rebellion against the Manchu Dynasty in China.

* End of the White Lotus Rebellion ( 1796 – 1804 ), an uprising against the Qing Dynasty in China.

* 1253 – April 28 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, declares his intention to preach the Lotus Sutra and Nam Myoho Renge Kyo as the true Buddhism, essentially founding the branch of Buddhism now known as Nichiren Buddhism.

* April 28 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, declares his intent to preach the Lotus Sutra and Nam Myoho Renge Kyo as the true Buddhism, thus founding Nichiren Buddhism.

A breed of powerful hybrids appeared in the 50s and 60s and raced on both sides of the Atlantic, featuring European chassis and large American engines – from the early Allard cars via hybrids such as Lotus 19s fitted with large engines through to the AC Cobra.

It is estimated that Medicago diverged from Glycine ( soybean ) 53 – 55 million years ago and from Lotus ( deervetch ) 49 – 51 million years ago

for this are as follows: Wilfred P. Deac, " Road to the Killing Fields: The Cambodian War of 1970-1975 " ( Texas A & M University Press, 1997 ) pp. 61 – 2 ; Robert Dallek, " Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power ," ( Harper Collins, 2007 ), p. 191 ; Steve Heder " Cambodian Communism and the Vietnamse Model, Volume I: Imitation and Independence, 1930-1975 ," ( White Lotus Press, 2004 ), p. 156.: It seems likely that Lon Nol initially intended to strengthen his position against the North Vietnamese with the ultimate aim of preventing their troops ( and those of the Viet Cong ) from operating within Cambodian borders, and wished to apply pressure on Sihanouk to achieve this.

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IBM purchased the company in 1995 for $ 3. 5 billion, primarily to acquire Lotus Notes and to establish a presence in the increasingly important client – server computing segment, which was rapidly making host-based products like IBM's OfficeVision obsolete.

* Lotus 2-Eleven Weighing just and with the Lotus 2-Eleven can sprint from 0 – 60 in 3. 8 seconds and has a top speed of.

* Lotus Mark II ( 1949 – 1950 ): Ford-powered trials car

* Lotus Mark VI ( 1953 – 1955 ): The first " production " racer — about 100 built

* Lotus Seven ( 1957 – 1970 ): Classic open sports car, a minimalist machine designed to manoeuvre a racing circuit and nothing else.

* Lotus Eleven ( 1956 – 1957 ): sports racer

* Lotus 12 ( 1956 – 1957 ): Formula Two and Formula One racecar

* Lotus 14 ( 1957 – 1963 ): First production street car — the Elite

* Lotus 16 ( 1958 – 1959 ): F1 / F2 car based on the Twelve