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How many working days in year 1953?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1953 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.
Now, let's remove 10 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 1953.
Here is the list of these 10 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Thursday, 1 January, 1953
2. Berchtold's Day : Friday, 2 January, 1953
3. Good Friday : Friday, 3 April, 1953
4. Easter Monday : Monday, 6 April, 1953
5. Ascension Day : Thursday, 14 May, 1953
6. Whit Monday : Monday, 25 May, 1953
7. Corpus Christi : Thursday, 4 June, 1953
8. Saint Nicholas of Flüe Day : Friday, 25 September, 1953
9. Immaculate Conception : Tuesday, 8 December, 1953
10. Christmas Day : Friday, 25 December, 1953
And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Swiss National Day : Saturday, 1 August, 1953
2. Assumption of Mary : Saturday, 15 August, 1953
3. All Saints' Day : Sunday, 1 November, 1953
4. Saint Stephen's Day : Saturday, 26 December, 1953