The Red Army took Melitopol.
Polish Jewish dancer Franceska Mann seized a handgun from Auschwitz roll call officer Oberscharführer Josef Schillinger, killed him, and perhaps one other SS Guard. What followed is obscure, but it may have caused a bit of an uprising in the female section of the facility.
The Swedish government suspended the Nobel Prize for a fourth straight year.
The U-274 was sunk in the Atlantic.
