2013 Event Experts observing the Comet ISON sweep 730,000 miles over the surface of the sun believe that that part of the comet survived the close encounter; images suggest a small nucleus may have remained intact 1979 Event Pressure in nucleus of tropical cyclone at Guam hits record 870 hpa 1922 Birthday Aage Neals Bohr, born in Denmark, physicist/study atomic nucleus, Nobel 1975 1871 Birthday Ernest Lord Rutherford, England, physicist, atomic nucleus; Nobel 1908