Why is the date on the iCal icon the 17th July!?

I was amusing a friend recently showing him how the date on the iCal icon changes to the current date when you open it up and he asked an interesting question ... why does the icon show the date as the 17th July when the application is not open?
I had never really thought about it before so decided to search the internet for a reasonable answer ... the following are a list if interesting events which occured on the 17th July (none of which however seem likely to be the reason for the icons date):
1995 - The Nasdaq stock index closes above the 1000 mark for the first time.
1989 - First flight of the B2 Stealth Bomber.
1987 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 2500 mark for the first time.
1976 - Viking 1 lands on Mars.
1975 - Russian and American astronauts meet in space as the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft's dock successfully.
1964 - A new land speed record is set by the Bluebird (driven by Sir Donald Campbell) reaching a speed of 429mph.
1955 - Opening of Disneyland in California.
1936 - Start of Spanish Civil War.
1917 - The British Royal Family change their name to Windsor in place of their German family name Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1790 - The first sewing machine is patented by Thomas Saint.
1453 - End of the One Hundred Years War.
I then came across this page on the Apple site ... http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2002/jul/17ical.html ... which gives the obvious answer that the reason for the icons date is simply that the program was first introduced at MacWorld on the 17th July 2002! Simple!

Have you read ?
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3579

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