national holiday

It was timed to fall between a national holiday and the weekend, on a day that many people in South Korea planned to take as vacation.

President Richard Nixon made Father’s Day a national holiday in 1972.

The vast majority of the nearly 28 million registered voters in the country of 62 million are expected to go to the polls across South Africa’s nine provinces on Wednesday, which is a national holiday.

Dozens of children and adults also competed in safer and slower, but no less grueling, uphill versions of the race, which are traditionally held on a late-May national holiday.

“This show of unity led to a surge in the popularity of independence day and other national holidays, with celebrations becoming even more vibrant and patriotic.”