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How many working days in year 1978?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1978 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

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

Now, let's remove 10 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 250 working days in 1978.

Here is the list of these 10 public holidays:

1. Sexta-Feira Santa : Friday, 24 March, 1978
2. Dia da Liberdade : Tuesday, 25 April, 1978
3. Dia do Trabalhador : Monday, 1 May, 1978
4. Corpo de Deus : Thursday, 25 May, 1978
5. Assunção de Nossa Senhora : Tuesday, 15 August, 1978
6. Implantação da República : Thursday, 5 October, 1978
7. Todos os Santos : Wednesday, 1 November, 1978
8. Restauração da Independência : Friday, 1 December, 1978
9. Dia da Imaculada Conceição : Friday, 8 December, 1978
10. Natal : Monday, 25 December, 1978

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

1. Solenidade da Santa Mãe de Deus : Sunday, 1 January, 1978
2. Páscoa : Sunday, 26 March, 1978
3. Dia de Portugal : Saturday, 10 June, 1978