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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 15 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 246 working days in 1953.
Here is the list of these 15 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Thursday, January 1, 1953
2. Martin Luther King Day : Monday, January 19, 1953
3. Washington's Birthday : Monday, February 16, 1953
4. Mardi gras day : Tuesday, February 17, 1953
5. Confederate Memorial Day : Monday, April 27, 1953
6. Memorial Day : Monday, May 25, 1953
7. Jefferson Davis Day : Monday, June 1, 1953
8. Juneteenth National Independence Day : Friday, June 19, 1953
9. Independence Day (observance) : Friday, July 3, 1953
10. Labor Day : Monday, September 7, 1953
11. Columbus Day : Monday, October 12, 1953
12. Veterans Day : Wednesday, November 11, 1953
13. Thanksgiving : Thursday, November 26, 1953
14. Christmas : Friday, December 25, 1953
15. New Year's Eve : Thursday, December 31, 1953
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Independence Day : Saturday, July 4, 1953
2. December 26 : Saturday, December 26, 1953