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How many working days in year 1996?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1996 is a leap year, it has 366 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.
Now, let's remove 246 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 246 working days in 1996.
Here is the list of these 246 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Monday, January 1, 1996
2. Martin Luther King Day : Monday, January 15, 1996
3. Washington's Birthday : Monday, February 19, 1996
4. Mardi gras day : Tuesday, February 20, 1996
5. Confederate Memorial Day : Monday, April 22, 1996
6. Memorial Day : Monday, May 27, 1996
7. Jefferson Davis Day : Monday, June 3, 1996
8. Juneteenth National Independence Day : Wednesday, June 19, 1996
9. Independence Day : Thursday, July 4, 1996
10. Labor Day : Monday, September 2, 1996
11. Columbus Day : Monday, October 14, 1996
12. Veterans Day : Monday, November 11, 1996
13. Thanksgiving : Thursday, November 28, 1996
14. Christmas : Wednesday, December 25, 1996
15. December 26 : Thursday, December 26, 1996
16. New Year's Eve : Tuesday, December 31, 1996