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How many working days in year 1987?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1987 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 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 1987.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. Nytårsdag : Thursday, 1 January, 1987
2. Skærtorsdag : Thursday, 16 April, 1987
3. Langfredag : Friday, 17 April, 1987
4. 2. påskedag : Monday, 20 April, 1987
5. Store Bededag : Friday, 15 May, 1987
6. Kristi Himmelfartsdag : Thursday, 28 May, 1987
7. 2. pinsedag : Monday, 8 June, 1987
8. Juledag : Friday, 25 December, 1987

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

1. Påskedag : Sunday, 19 April, 1987
2. Pinsedag : Sunday, 7 June, 1987
3. 2. juledag : Saturday, 26 December, 1987