World Emoji Day

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List of World Emoji Day-related emojis.

World Emoji Day is held on July 17 each year.  The purpose of World Emoji Day is to promote the use emojis and spread the enjoyment that they bring to all of those around us.  Questions? http://worldemojiday.com/faq/

• [🥳 Partying Face] > https://emojipedia.org/partying-face/)
• [🙌 Raising Hands] > https://emojipedia.org/raising-hands/)
• [🍾 Bottle with Popping Cork] > https://emojipedia.org/bottle-with-popping-cork/)
• [🌍 Globe Showing Europe-Africa] > https://emojipedia.org/globe-showing-europe-africa/)
• [🌎 Globe Showing Americas] > https://emojipedia.org/globe-showing-americas/)
• [🌏 Globe Showing Asia-Australia] > https://emojipedia.org/globe-showing-asia-australia/)
• [🌐 Globe with Meridians] > https://emojipedia.org/globe-with-meridians/)
• [🗺️ World Map] > https://emojipedia.org/world-map/)
• [🌟 Glowing Star] > https://emojipedia.org/glowing-star/)
• [🎉 Party Popper] > https://emojipedia.org/party-popper/)
• [📅 Calendar] > https://emojipedia.org/calendar/)

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A version of the 'Tear-off calendar' emoji displaying 17 July.

World Emoji Day is an annual unofficial holiday occurring on 17 July, intended to celebrate emoji; in the years since the earliest observance, it has become a popular date to make product or other announcements and releases relating to emoji.

Origins

The date originally referred to the day Apple premiered its iCal calendar application in 2002. The day, July 17, was displayed on the Apple Color Emoji version of the calendar emoji (📅) as an Easter egg.

World Emoji Day is "the brainchild of Jeremy Burge" according to CNBC which stated that the founder of Emojipedia created it in 2014.

The New York Times reported that Burge created this on 17 July "based on the way the calendar emoji is shown on iPhones". For the first World Emoji Day, Burge told The Independent "there were no formal plans put in place" other than choosing the date. The Washington Post suggested in 2018 that readers use this day to "communicate with only emoji".

NBC reported that the day was Twitter's top trending item on 17 July in 2015.

In 2016, Google changed the appearance of Unicode character Modèle:Unichar to display 17 July on Android, Gmail, Hangouts, and Chrome OS products. As of 2020, all major platforms except Microsoft had switched to show July 17 on this emoji, to avoid confusion on World Emoji Day.