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How many working days in year 1983?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1983 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 53 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 260 days.

Now, let's remove 7 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 1983.

Here is the list of these 7 public holidays:

1. Ouschterméindeg : Monday, 4 April, 1983
2. Christi Himmelfaart : Thursday, 12 May, 1983
3. Péngschtméindeg : Monday, 23 May, 1983
4. Nationalfeierdag : Thursday, 23 June, 1983
5. Léiffrawëschdag : Monday, 15 August, 1983
6. Allerhellegen : Tuesday, 1 November, 1983
7. Stiefesdag : Monday, 26 December, 1983

And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Neijoerschdag : Saturday, 1 January, 1983
2. Dag vun der Aarbecht : Sunday, 1 May, 1983
3. Chrëschtdag : Sunday, 25 December, 1983