national holiday

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The ninth of May has become Russia's most important national holiday.

From BBC • May 7, 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

Japanese markets will be closed for a national holiday on Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Australia Day - a national holiday on 26 January - marks the 1788 landing of Britain's First Fleet in Sydney Cove and the start of colonisation.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 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