Retail price inflation has fallen to 0%, it was announced today. It is the lowest figure since 1960 when Harold Macmillan was prime minister. What else was happening that year?
• The most popular single in 1960 was Elvis Presley's It's Now or Never, which spent eight weeks at No 1 in the charts.
•Interest rates were hovering between 5% and 6% compared to 0.5% today.
• British Somaliland and Nigeria gained independence from the United Kingdom.
• Harold Pinter's play The Caretaker was premiered on the London stage.
• Princess Margaret married Antony Armstrong-Jones.
• A football match between Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers became the first league game to be televised live.
• Penguin Books was cleared of obscenity for publishing DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover.
• The first episode of Coronation Street was broadcast.
• National Service was scrapped.
• The suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst died and Nigella Lawson was born.
