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How many working days in year 1972?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1972 is a leap year, it has 366 days.
Let's remove 53 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 260 days.
Now, let's remove 10 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 250 working days in 1972.
Here is the list of these 10 public holidays:
1. Human Rights Day : Tuesday, 21 March, 1972
2. Good Friday : Friday, 31 March, 1972
3. Family Day : Monday, 3 April, 1972
4. Freedom Day : Thursday, 27 April, 1972
5. Workers' Day : Monday, 1 May, 1972
6. Youth Day : Friday, 16 June, 1972
7. National Women's Day : Wednesday, 9 August, 1972
8. Heritage Day observance : Monday, 25 September, 1972
9. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 1972
10. Day of Goodwill : Tuesday, 26 December, 1972
And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : Saturday, 1 January, 1972
2. Heritage Day : Sunday, 24 September, 1972
3. Day of Reconciliation : Saturday, 16 December, 1972