Template:Are You Sure/November 24

• ... that the Battle of the Indus was fought on this day on the banks of the Indus river between the armies commanded by Jalal al-Din of the Khwarazmian Empire, and Genghis Khan of the Mongol Empire; and that the battle, which resulted in an overwhelming Mongol victory, was the concluding engagement in the Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire?

• ... that philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder Baruch Spinoza was a pioneer of Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, notably his modern conceptions of the self and the universe?

• ... that astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks observed the transit of Venus in 1639?

• ... that That Was the Week That Was was first broadcast on 24 November 1962?

• ... that Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, was urdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby, a nightclub operator, in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters, as Oswald was being led by two detectives to an armored car to take him to the nearby county jail?