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How many working days in year 1956?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1956 is a leap year, it has 366 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 261 days.
Now, let's remove 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 250 working days in 1956.
Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day observance : Monday, 2 January, 1956
2. Human Rights Day : Wednesday, 21 March, 1956
3. Good Friday : Friday, 30 March, 1956
4. Family Day : Monday, 2 April, 1956
5. Freedom Day : Friday, 27 April, 1956
6. Workers' Day : Tuesday, 1 May, 1956
7. National Women's Day : Thursday, 9 August, 1956
8. Heritage Day : Monday, 24 September, 1956
9. Day of Reconciliation observance : Monday, 17 December, 1956
10. Christmas Day : Tuesday, 25 December, 1956
11. Day of Goodwill : Wednesday, 26 December, 1956
And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 1956
2. Youth Day : Saturday, 16 June, 1956
3. Day of Reconciliation : Sunday, 16 December, 1956