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How many working days in year 1984?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1984 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 261 days.

Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 1984.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. Epifania : Friday, 6 January, 1984
2. Lunedì di Pasqua : Monday, 23 April, 1984
3. Anniversario Liberazione : Wednesday, 25 April, 1984
4. Festa del lavoro : Tuesday, 1 May, 1984
5. Ferragosto o Assunzione : Wednesday, 15 August, 1984
6. Ognissanti o Tutti i Santi : Thursday, 1 November, 1984
7. Santo Natale : Tuesday, 25 December, 1984
8. Santo Stefano : Wednesday, 26 December, 1984

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

1. Capodanno : Sunday, 1 January, 1984
2. Festa della Repubblica Italia : Saturday, 2 June, 1984
3. Immacolata Concezione : Saturday, 8 December, 1984