May 8th 1899
Olds Motor Works was incorporated by the merger of Olds Motor Vehicle and Olds Gasoline Engine Works.
May 8th 1933
The very first police radio system was installed in Eastchester Township, New York, by Radio Engineering Laboratories of Long Island.
May 8th 1956
Henry Ford II resigned as the chairperson of Ford Foundation. The Ford Foundation is a philanthropic institution incorporated in Michigan and based in New York City created to fund programs that was chartered in 1936 by Edsel Ford and Henry Ford. He resigned as a trustee in 1976 rendering it independent of Ford Motor Company and Ford family.
May 8th 1964
Bobby Labonte, an american Nascar driver for born in Texas. As of 2008, Labonte is the only driver to have won both the NASCAR Sprint Cup championship and the NASCAR Nationwide Series championship.
May 8th 1982
Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver died when he crashed his Ferari during the Belgian Grand Prix.