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How many working days in year 1963?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1963 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 10 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 1963.

Here is the list of these 10 public holidays:

1. Nieuwjaarsdag : Tuesday, 1 January, 1963
2. Paasmaandag : Monday, 15 April, 1963
3. Dag van de Arbeid : Wednesday, 1 May, 1963
4. Hemelvaartsdag : Thursday, 23 May, 1963
5. Pinkstermaandag : Monday, 3 June, 1963
6. Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Hemelvaart : Thursday, 15 August, 1963
7. Feest van de Franse Gemeenschap : Friday, 27 September, 1963
8. Allerheiligen : Friday, 1 November, 1963
9. Wapenstilstand : Monday, 11 November, 1963
10. Kerstmis : Wednesday, 25 December, 1963

And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:

1. Nationale Feestdag : Sunday, 21 July, 1963