Saudi Arabia’s National Day

International Day of Sign Languages

Birthdays for Bruce Springsteen (1949) and Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander (1959)

Anniversary of:
• the founding of Nintendo Koppai (later Nintendo Company) by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda (1889)
• the birthdays of Ray Charles (1930)
• the deaths of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (1939)
• the premiere of The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and TV comedy Modern Family (2009)