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How many working days in year 1973?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1973 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 1973.

Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 1973
2. Easter Monday : Monday, 23 April, 1973
3. Labour Day : Tuesday, 1 May, 1973
4. Ascension Day : Thursday, 31 May, 1973
5. Whit Monday : Monday, 11 June, 1973
6. Assumption of Mary : Wednesday, 15 August, 1973
7. All Saints' Day : Thursday, 1 November, 1973
8. Christmas Day : Tuesday, 25 December, 1973
9. St. Stephen's Day : Wednesday, 26 December, 1973

And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:

1. National Day : Saturday, 23 June, 1973