QUESTION

Why do planets rotate about their own axis?

It is a well-known fact that the planets in our Solar System revolve around the Sun because
of the gravitational pull of the Sun which imparts it a centripetal acceleration. But the
question, I am asking is that why they spin too while moving in their elliptical orbits.
While trying to answer this seemingly intuitive question, I will try not to limit this question to
our Solar System but try to answer a more general questionWhy do all known celestial bodies possess angular momentum?

RESEARCH
I will adopt two different approaches in trying to solve this universal puzzle.
1. Conservation of Angular momentum
2. The Forces present in the Universe.