What day is July 17? Why is July 17 International Emoji Day?

What day is July 17? This article will summarize for you all the necessary information to know what day July 17 is or what is interesting!

 

Welcome to the 198th day of the year, with 167 days left until the end of 2025. Today is your lucky day because we have compiled some of the most fascinating historical events that happened on July 17th.

Did you know that on this day in 1959, Mary Leakey discovered ancient human skull remains in Tanzania, Africa? This was the discovery of a new human-like creature, Paranthropus boisei.

Keep reading for more fun and interesting facts about July 17 in history!

July 17 is World Emoji Day, the day of emotional symbols or emojis for short, called by the term Emoji.

Nowadays, Emoji is widely used in the digital age, especially in conversations on social networks. Emoji has almost become a separate language used by many young people.

The first emoji was created by Japanese artist Shigetaka Kurita in 1999, while he was working on i-mode, an early mobile Internet platform by carrier Docomo.

 

Kurita created 12 x 12 pixel images, which could be selected from the keyboard-style interface in i-mode to convey information simply and concisely. Kurita created the first 176 emojis. Emojis quickly became popular in Japan.

In 2007, emoji was proposed by a software internationalization team at Google to be recognized by the Unicode Consortium. And by 2010, emoji was recognized by the Unicode Consortium, helping the emoji vocabulary to continuously grow, and legitimizing emoji as a form of communication, a new language.

In 2009, 625 emoji were proposed for adoption into the Unicode standard.

In 2011, Apple added an emoji keyboard to iOS. Two years later, Android followed suit.

In recent years, emojis have become popular globally, becoming an irreplaceable communication feature.

July 17 was chosen as World Emoji Day because it is the day that appears on the symbol that represents the "calendar".

World Emoji Day was first celebrated in 2014. The Unicode Consortium sets the rules and framework for emojis and decides how each icon will be depicted.

1. Interesting facts about emojis, the emoticons used every day on the Internet
2. What are the icons =)), :)), :3, :v, ^^? When should they be used?

Other notable events on July 17

1998 - The American swordplay film "The Mask of Zorro" is released in the United States.

Filming took about a year at Estudios Churubusco in Mexico City, Mexico, on a budget of $95 million. The film grossed a total of $250 million after its release on that day. Due to its success, a sequel, The Legend of Zorro, was released in 2005.

2015 - Marvel's American superhero film "Ant-Man" is released.