2012 Event Four genetically different types of breast cancer are identified by researchers; the study, part of the Cancer Genome Atlas, will help scientists understand how to cure breast cancer in the future 1860 Birthday Daniel Berkeley Updike, printer/publisher/writer, Printing Types 1855 Birthday Ivan V Mitshurin, Russian botanist, new types of fruit 1742 Birthday Georg C. Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer, types of Lichtenberg