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How many working days in year 1974?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1974 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 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 1974.

Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:

1. Año Nuevo : Tuesday, 1 January, 1974
2. Jueves Santo : Thursday, 11 April, 1974
3. Viernes Santo : Friday, 12 April, 1974
4. Día del Trabajo : Wednesday, 1 May, 1974
5. Día del Ejército : Monday, 1 July, 1974
6. Día de Todos los Santos : Friday, 1 November, 1974
7. Noche Buena : Tuesday, 24 December, 1974
8. Navidad : Wednesday, 25 December, 1974
9. Víspera de Año Nuevo : Tuesday, 31 December, 1974

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

1. Sábado Santo : Saturday, 13 April, 1974
2. Día de la Independencia : Sunday, 15 September, 1974
3. Día de la Revolución : Sunday, 20 October, 1974