On the Eastern Front… In the Crimea, the Soviet 4th Ukrainian Front and the Independent Coastal Army advance. Feodosia, Evpatoriya and Simferopol are all taken. The German and Romanian forces of 17th Army are fall back on Sevastopol in some disorder. To the west, forces of the 3rd Ukrainian Front capture Ovidiopol at the mouth of the Dnestr River.

In New Guinea… Australian forces capture Bogadjim.

Over Occupied France… American and British tactical air forces conduct numerous attacks on German coastal batteries in Normandy.

In Britain… The 5th Earl of Lonsdale, sportsman and donor of the “Lonsdale Belts” awarded to champion boxers, dies at age 87.