Get On This Day delivered free to your inbox: br br br 1065 – Westminster Abbey is consecrated. br br br br br 2006 – War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed. br br br br 1612 – Galileo becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star. br br br br br 1922 – Stan Lee is born.