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1065 – Westminster Abbey is consecrated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Abbey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD9Xli8mMN0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYFm0NvgpOU
2006 – War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Somalia_%282006%E2%80%9309%29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUsJT8YfFbo
1612 – Galileo becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx6yNSlxc_c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7kea5vwQRE
1922 – Stan Lee is born. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_kpIzSCYS4