🤔 Why is there 17 July on the 📅 “Calendar” emoji?

There are several emoji where the design details are not random or carry a hidden meaning. These include 📖 "Open Book", for example, where the Apple version displays real text, and the emoji for 🧏 Deaf people showing a word from European Sign Language.

"What about the July 17 📅 "Calendar" emoji?", often wonder frequent users and emoji ❤️ Lovers.

What are the origins of this date?

For the first time, this date and month were shown in the Apple emoji version. That's how the company decided to frame the reference to the premiere date of Apple Inc.'s iCal software calendar for Mac OS X, which took place at the MacWorld Expo on July 17, 2002.

Later, in 2014, emoji reference website creator Jeremy Burge had the idea of organising an annual 🎉 Celebration dedicated to emojis. And since the emoji calendar on the iPhone displayed July 17, Jeremy thought it was logical to celebrate 📅🙃 World Emoji Day on that very day.

The idea of celebrating proved to be successful. Consequently, the major platforms, starting from 2016, have altered the numbers on their emoji calendars to July 17 in order to avoid user confusion.

Note: on Apple, Samsung, Google and the Mozilla browser, the 17 July is also displayed by the 📆 "Tear-Off Calendar" emoji.

What about other emoji-dates?

But not all emoji providers supported the concept and still feature symbolic dates. This is particularly true of the social network Facebook, which depicts on its 📅 "Calendar" emoji version May 14, the birthday of the social network's founder Mark Zuckerberg. Likewise, the WhatsApp messenger broadcasts February 24 on the emoji - the day WhatsApp Inc. was founded.

Calendars on other platforms either look generic, like Microsoft's, or even display random numbers. For example, 12. Although the latter has been suggested as representing the number of months in a year, no clear proof of this theory has been found.