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How many working days in year 1991?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1991 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 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 1991.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Tuesday, 1 January, 1991
2. Good Friday : Friday, 29 March, 1991
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 1 April, 1991
4. Queen's Day : Tuesday, 30 April, 1991
5. Ascension Day : Thursday, 9 May, 1991
6. Pentecost Monday : Monday, 20 May, 1991
7. Christmas Day : Wednesday, 25 December, 1991
8. Boxing Day : Thursday, 26 December, 1991

And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 31 March, 1991
2. Pentecost Sunday : Sunday, 19 May, 1991