How many working days in year 1939?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1939 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 260 days.
Now, let's remove 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 1939.
Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:
1. Paasmaandag : Monday, 10 April, 1939
2. Dag van de Arbeid : Monday, 1 May, 1939
3. Hemelvaartsdag : Thursday, 18 May, 1939
4. Pinkstermaandag : Monday, 29 May, 1939
5. Nationale Feestdag : Friday, 21 July, 1939
6. Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Hemelvaart : Tuesday, 15 August, 1939
7. Allerheiligen : Wednesday, 1 November, 1939
8. Koningsdag : Wednesday, 15 November, 1939
9. Kerstmis : Monday, 25 December, 1939
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Nieuwjaarsdag : Sunday, 1 January, 1939
2. Wapenstilstand : Saturday, 11 November, 1939