Shannon was honored with a Google Doodle to celebrate his life on what would have been his 100th birthday.

Claude Elwood Shannon died in Medford, Massachusetts at the age of 84. He had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

A report from Barron's on August 11, 1986, detailed the recent performance of 1,026 mutual funds, and Shannon achieved a higher return than 1,025 of them.

Shannon joined the MIT faculty, holding an endowed chair.

Shannon co-organized and participated in the Dartmouth workshop of 1956, alongside John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky and Nathaniel Rochester, and which is considered the founding event of the field of artificial intelligence.

Shannon was listed as one of the top 20 most important scientists in America by Fortune.

Mervin Kelly, received a request from the director of the CIA, general Walter Bedell Smith, regarding Shannon.

Shannon completed a paper which estimates the game-tree complexity of chess.

In March 1950 Shannon's 'Programming a Computer for playing Chess' was published in Philosophical Magazine, and is considered one of the first articles published on the topic of programming a computer for playing chess, and using a computer to solve the game.

Shannon designed, and built with the help of his wife, a learning machine named Theseus.

Shannon presented a paper called 'Programming a Computer for playing Chess'. The paper was presented at the National Institute for Radio Engineers Convention in New York.

Shannon met his second wife, Mary Elizabeth Moore (Betty), when she was a numerical analyst at Bell Labs. They were married in 1949.

Another notable paper published in 1949 is 'Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems', a declassified version of his wartime work on the mathematical theory of cryptography.

Shannon published 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication' in the Bell System Technical Journal. This work laid the foundations for the field of information theory.

Shannon prepared a classified memorandum for Bell Telephone Labs entitled 'A Mathematical Theory of Cryptography'.

Mabel Wolf Shannon (mother of Claude Shannon) passed away.

Claude Shannon came into contact with the leading British mathematician Alan Turing for two months.

Shannon is credited with the invention of signal-flow graphs, in 1942.

Shannon received his PhD in mathematics from MIT.

Shannon became a National Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Shannon married Norma Levor, a wealthy, Jewish, left-wing intellectual in January 1940. The marriage ended in divorce after about a year.

Shannon's master's thesis won the 1939 Alfred Noble Prize.

A paper from Shannon's thesis published in 1938.

Shannon worked for a few months in the summer at Bell Labs.

Claude Shannon's father, Claude Sr. passed away.

Claude Elwood Shannon was born in Petoskey, Michigan, U.S. He later became known as the 'father of information theory' and the 'father of the Information Age'.