What day of the week was July 27, 1996?

The day of the week July 27th, 1996 fell on was a Saturday.

Centennial Olympic Park bombing: In Atlanta the United States, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics. One woman (Alice Hawthorne) is killed, and a cameraman suffers a heart attack fleeing the scene. One hundred eleven are injured.