Happy unbirthday

Yesterday was the birthday of the linguistics blogger who goes by Semantic Compositions (he's revealed his real name elsewhere, but you can dig it up yourself). He posted a link to Wikipedia's article on things that happened on 22 November, so of course I had to go check out what happened on 30 April. I already knew the bit about the Church of Satan being founded, but what really caught my eye was the fact that I share a birthday with none other than Claude Shannon. How cool is that?