/ 23 September 2021

23 September 2021

Saudi Arabia’s National Day, commemorating the renaming of the Kingdom of Nejd and Hejaz to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by royal decree of King Abdul Aziz Al Saud (1932)

International Day of Sign Languages

International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer

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 death of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (1939)
• the premiere of The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and TV comedy Modern Family (2009)

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