How many working days in year 1959?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1959 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 1959.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Thursday, 1 January, 1959
2. Easter Monday : Monday, 30 March, 1959
3. Labor Day : Friday, 1 May, 1959
4. Ascension Day : Thursday, 7 May, 1959
5. Pentecost Monday : Monday, 18 May, 1959
6. National Day : Tuesday, 21 July, 1959
7. Armistice Day : Wednesday, 11 November, 1959
8. Christmas Day : Friday, 25 December, 1959
And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Assumption of Mary : Saturday, 15 August, 1959
2. All Saints' Day : Sunday, 1 November, 1959
3. King's Day : Sunday, 15 November, 1959
4. Boxing Day : Saturday, 26 December, 1959