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How many working days in year 1961?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1961 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 260 days.
Now, let's remove 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 249 working days in 1961.
Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day observance : Monday, 2 January, 1961
2. Human Rights Day : Tuesday, 21 March, 1961
3. Good Friday : Friday, 31 March, 1961
4. Family Day : Monday, 3 April, 1961
5. Freedom Day : Thursday, 27 April, 1961
6. Workers' Day : Monday, 1 May, 1961
7. Youth Day : Friday, 16 June, 1961
8. National Women's Day : Wednesday, 9 August, 1961
9. Heritage Day observance : Monday, 25 September, 1961
10. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 1961
11. Day of Goodwill : Tuesday, 26 December, 1961
And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 1961
2. Heritage Day : Sunday, 24 September, 1961
3. Day of Reconciliation : Saturday, 16 December, 1961