World War II: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" id="mwARY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="17th Army (Wehrmacht)">German 17th Army</a> begins its evacuation of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuban_bridgehead" id="mwARc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kuban bridgehead">Kuban bridgehead</a> (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.