On the Eastern Front… In the Crimea, Soviet forces of the Independent Coastal Army capture Yalta. To the west, the 3rd Ukrainian Front cross the Dnestr River to the north and south of Tiraspol. German forces counterattack the Soviet bridgeheads over the Dnestr but fail to dislodge the Red Army defenders.

Over Romania… Soviet bombers strike Galatz.

In Occupied Hungary… The Eichmann organization begins the systematic concentration of about 800,000 Jewish Hungarians in ghettoes.