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How many working days in year 1984?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1984 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 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 1984.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. Maundy Thursday : Thursday, 19 April, 1984
2. Good Friday : Friday, 20 April, 1984
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 23 April, 1984
4. General Prayer Day : Friday, 18 May, 1984
5. Ascension Day : Thursday, 31 May, 1984
6. Whit Monday : Monday, 11 June, 1984
7. Christmas Day : Tuesday, 25 December, 1984
8. Boxing Day : Wednesday, 26 December, 1984

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

1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 1984
2. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 22 April, 1984
3. Pentecost : Sunday, 10 June, 1984