Timeline Thursday 4 May 1939

Events on Thursday 4 May 1939 2

• 1939 Bombing of Chongqing begins in earnest Japanese air raids devastate China's wartime capital Japanese raids on 3 and 4 May set large parts of Chongqing on fire and killed thousands of civilians. The Nationalist government had moved to the city after the fall of Wuhan. The bombing went on for years.
• 1939 Finnegans Wake published James Joyce's final work appears Faber and Faber published James Joyce's Finnegans Wake after 17 years of work. The book is written in a dense, multilingual invented language. It is one of the most difficult novels in English.