What day of the week was April 27, 2002?

The day of the week April 27th, 2002 fell on was a Saturday.

Ruth Handler the American businesswoman, created the Barbie doll (b. 1916) died on this day in 2002. As did Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza the Dutch-Swiss businessman (b. 1921) .

The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10.