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How many working days in year 1977?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1977 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 53 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 260 days.

Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 1977.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. Epifania : Thursday, 6 January, 1977
2. Lunedì di Pasqua : Monday, 11 April, 1977
3. Anniversario Liberazione : Monday, 25 April, 1977
4. Festa della Repubblica Italia : Thursday, 2 June, 1977
5. Ferragosto o Assunzione : Monday, 15 August, 1977
6. Ognissanti o Tutti i Santi : Tuesday, 1 November, 1977
7. Immacolata Concezione : Thursday, 8 December, 1977
8. Santo Stefano : Monday, 26 December, 1977

And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Capodanno : Saturday, 1 January, 1977
2. Festa del lavoro : Sunday, 1 May, 1977
3. Santo Natale : Sunday, 25 December, 1977