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Historical Event on 11/1/1948
An Indian brigade group supported by the 7th Cavalry (Stuart tanks) broke through the Great Himalayan Range at Zojila to drive out the invaders from Ladakh district. At approximately 3,500 metres, this was the highest point in the history of warfare that tanks had operated.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/20/1939 | Ramakant Bhikaji Desai, cricketer (effective pace bowler for India in the 60s), was born in Bombay. |
| 4/20/1954 | Panchsheel agreement between China and India. |
| 6/15/1949 | Uloor S. Parmeswara Iyer, famous poet, writer, editor and literature, died. He was 72. |
| 9/26/1932 | Gandhiji breaks fast on Indian government's acceptance of his demand regarding Harijans. |
| 1/26/1965 | Hindi Language is accepted as National language of India. |
| 10/27/1969 | Darshansingh Pheruman died in Amritsar during the 74th day of his fast, which he had undertaken for the merger of Chandigarh in Punjab. |
| 6/17/1993 | K. D. Dharmadhikari (Nana), veteran freedom fighter, died. |
| 11/21/1961 | Communist China announced a cease-fire in its border war with India and said it would withdraw its troops 12 miles behind the boundary lines that existed in 1959. China said it was making the move to end the hostilities and to implement proposals it had made in October to settle the border dispute. Before the ceasefire, Chinese troops had seized the Indian headquarters at Bomdila near Tibet and were threatening the Indian state of Assam. Faced with defeat on the border and a Chinese invasion, the Indian government said it would ""respond positively"" to the Chinese offer of a ceasef |
| 5/17/1865 | Raobahadur Govind Sakharam Sardesai `Riyasatkar' was born. |
| 5/7/1993 | Jankiraman panel's final report finds that an additional aggregate of Rs. 12,85,549 crore was transacted in banks without any documentation; it indicts 12 more banks for involving in the scam. |
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