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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 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 250 working days in 1984.

Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:

1. Second Day of the New Year : Monday, 2 January, 1984
2. Union of the Romanian Principalities : Tuesday, 24 January, 1984
3. Orthodox Easter Friday : Friday, 20 April, 1984
4. Orthodox Easter Monday : Monday, 23 April, 1984
5. Labour Day : Tuesday, 1 May, 1984
6. Children's Day : Friday, 1 June, 1984
7. Pentecost Monday : Monday, 11 June, 1984
8. Assumption : Wednesday, 15 August, 1984
9. St. Andrew's Day : Friday, 30 November, 1984
10. Christmas Day : Tuesday, 25 December, 1984
11. Boxing day : Wednesday, 26 December, 1984

And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 1984
2. Orthodox Easter Sunday : Sunday, 22 April, 1984
3. Pentecost Sunday : Sunday, 10 June, 1984
4. National Day : Saturday, 1 December, 1984