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How many working days in year 1976?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1976 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.

Now, let's remove 6 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 256 working days in 1976.

Here is the list of these 6 public holidays:

1. Capodanno : Thursday, 1 January, 1976
2. Epifania : Tuesday, 6 January, 1976
3. Lunedì di Pasqua : Monday, 19 April, 1976
4. Festa della Repubblica Italia : Wednesday, 2 June, 1976
5. Ognissanti o Tutti i Santi : Monday, 1 November, 1976
6. Immacolata Concezione : Wednesday, 8 December, 1976

And here are the 5 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Anniversario Liberazione : Sunday, 25 April, 1976
2. Festa del lavoro : Saturday, 1 May, 1976
3. Ferragosto o Assunzione : Sunday, 15 August, 1976
4. Santo Natale : Saturday, 25 December, 1976
5. Santo Stefano : Sunday, 26 December, 1976