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 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 1956.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. Easter Monday : Monday, 2 April, 1956
2. Labor Day : Tuesday, 1 May, 1956
3. Ascension Day : Thursday, 10 May, 1956
4. Pentecost Monday : Monday, 21 May, 1956
5. Assumption of Mary : Wednesday, 15 August, 1956
6. French Community Holiday : Thursday, 27 September, 1956
7. All Saints' Day : Thursday, 1 November, 1956
8. Christmas Day : Tuesday, 25 December, 1956
And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 1956
2. National Day : Saturday, 21 July, 1956
3. Armistice Day : Sunday, 11 November, 1956