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 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 1956.
Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:
1. Paasmaandag : Monday, 2 April, 1956
2. Dag van de Arbeid : Tuesday, 1 May, 1956
3. Hemelvaartsdag : Thursday, 10 May, 1956
4. Pinkstermaandag : Monday, 21 May, 1956
5. Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Hemelvaart : Wednesday, 15 August, 1956
6. Allerheiligen : Thursday, 1 November, 1956
7. Koningsdag : Thursday, 15 November, 1956
8. Kerstmis : Tuesday, 25 December, 1956
9. Tweede Kerstdag : Wednesday, 26 December, 1956
And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Nieuwjaarsdag : Sunday, 1 January, 1956
2. Nationale Feestdag : Saturday, 21 July, 1956
3. Wapenstilstand : Sunday, 11 November, 1956