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How many working days in year 1945?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1945 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 1945.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 1945
2. Easter Monday : Monday, 2 April, 1945
3. Labor Day : Tuesday, 1 May, 1945
4. Ascension Day : Thursday, 10 May, 1945
5. Pentecost Monday : Monday, 21 May, 1945
6. Assumption of Mary : Wednesday, 15 August, 1945
7. All Saints' Day : Thursday, 1 November, 1945
8. Christmas Day : Tuesday, 25 December, 1945

And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. National Day : Saturday, 21 July, 1945
2. Armistice Day : Sunday, 11 November, 1945