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How many working days in year 1976?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1976 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.

Now, let's remove 10 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 1976.

Here is the list of these 10 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Thursday, 1 January, 1976
2. Human Rights Day observance : Monday, 22 March, 1976
3. Good Friday : Friday, 16 April, 1976
4. Family Day : Monday, 19 April, 1976
5. Freedom Day : Tuesday, 27 April, 1976
6. Youth Day : Wednesday, 16 June, 1976
7. National Women's Day : Monday, 9 August, 1976
8. Heritage Day : Friday, 24 September, 1976
9. Day of Reconciliation : Thursday, 16 December, 1976
10. Day of Goodwill observance : Monday, 27 December, 1976

And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Human Rights Day : Sunday, 21 March, 1976
2. Workers' Day : Saturday, 1 May, 1976
3. Christmas Day : Saturday, 25 December, 1976
4. Day of Goodwill : Sunday, 26 December, 1976