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How many working days in year 1996?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1996 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.

Now, let's remove 13 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 249 working days in 1996.

Here is the list of these 13 public holidays:

1. Año Nuevo : Monday, 1 January, 1996
2. Lunes de Carnaval : Monday, 19 February, 1996
3. Martes de Carnaval : Tuesday, 20 February, 1996
4. Día del Veterano y de los Caídos en la Guerra de Malvinas : Tuesday, 2 April, 1996
5. Jueves Santo : Thursday, 4 April, 1996
6. Viernes Santo : Friday, 5 April, 1996
7. Día Internacional de los Trabajadores : Wednesday, 1 May, 1996
8. Conmemoración de la muerte del General Manuel Belgrano : Thursday, 20 June, 1996
9. Día de la Independencia : Tuesday, 9 July, 1996
10. Día del Paso a la Inmortalidad del General José de San Martín : Monday, 19 August, 1996
11. Día del Respeto a la Diversidad Cultural : Monday, 14 October, 1996
12. Día de la Soberanía Nacional : Monday, 18 November, 1996
13. Navidad : Wednesday, 25 December, 1996

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

1. Día Nacional de la Memoria por la Verdad y la Justicia : Sunday, 24 March, 1996
2. Día de la Revolución de Mayo : Saturday, 25 May, 1996
3. Día de la Inmaculada Concepción : Sunday, 8 December, 1996