national holiday

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So sure had the hosts been of progressing with a draw, their government had already declared the following day a national holiday.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

Closed Monday for a national holiday and briefly insulated from heavy selling elsewhere, the South Korean stock market reopened Tuesday to heavy losses.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026

Sharaa also issued a decree recognising Kurdish cultural, linguistic and civil rights by making Kurdish a national language, granting nationality to stateless Kurds, and declaring their new year a national holiday.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

Thousands of people rallied in cities across Australia demanding justice and rights for Indigenous peoples on Monday, a national holiday marking the 1788 arrival of a British fleet in Sydney Harbour.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

If he’d been listening to the radio more regularly, he would have realized Friday was a national holiday and prepared for the possibility of no food line.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer