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How many working days in year 1969?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1969 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 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 1969.

Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Wednesday, 1 January, 1969
2. Easter Monday : Monday, 7 April, 1969
3. Labour Day : Thursday, 1 May, 1969
4. Ascension Day : Thursday, 15 May, 1969
5. Whit Monday : Monday, 26 May, 1969
6. National Day : Monday, 23 June, 1969
7. Assumption of Mary : Friday, 15 August, 1969
8. Christmas Day : Thursday, 25 December, 1969
9. St. Stephen's Day : Friday, 26 December, 1969

And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:

1. All Saints' Day : Saturday, 1 November, 1969