What day of the week was April 27, 1865?

The day of the week April 27th, 1865 fell on was a Thursday.

The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution. The steamboat the carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.