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How many working days in year 1953?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1953 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 1953.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Thursday, 1 January, 1953
2. Easter Monday : Monday, 6 April, 1953
3. Labor Day : Friday, 1 May, 1953
4. Ascension Day : Thursday, 14 May, 1953
5. Pentecost Monday : Monday, 25 May, 1953
6. National Day : Tuesday, 21 July, 1953
7. Armistice Day : Wednesday, 11 November, 1953
8. Christmas Day : Friday, 25 December, 1953

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

1. Assumption of Mary : Saturday, 15 August, 1953
2. French Community Holiday : Sunday, 27 September, 1953
3. All Saints' Day : Sunday, 1 November, 1953