1958 (idea)

• The nuclear powered submarine USS Nautilus becomes the first vessel to cross under the North Pole.
• MIT undergraduates of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity invent the smoot and use it to measure the length of the Harvard Bridge between Boston, Massachusetts and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

These people were born in 1958:

• Chinese film director Wong Kar-wai.

These people died in 1958:

• Pope Pius XII.

1957 - 1958 - 1959

20th century

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