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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 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 1996.
Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:
1. Confraternização Universal : Monday, 1 January, 1996
2. Terça-feira de Carnaval : Tuesday, 20 February, 1996
3. Sexta Feira Santa ou Paixão de Cristo : Friday, 5 April, 1996
4. Dia do Trabalho : Wednesday, 1 May, 1996
5. Corpus Christi : Thursday, 6 June, 1996
6. Homenagem à memória do ex-presidente João Pessoa : Friday, 26 July, 1996
7. Fundação do Estado Paraíba : Monday, 5 August, 1996
8. Proclamação da República Brasileira : Friday, 15 November, 1996
9. Natal : Wednesday, 25 December, 1996
And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Tiradentes : Sunday, 21 April, 1996
2. Independência do Brasil : Saturday, 7 September, 1996
3. Nossa Senhora Aparecida : Saturday, 12 October, 1996
4. Finados : Saturday, 2 November, 1996