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Events on Monday 13 January 1941 2
1882 – 1941James Joyce (1882-1941)Died 13 January 1941, aged 58The Irish novelist James Joyce wrote Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. He died in Zurich after surgery for a perforated ulcer.
1941New Fourth Army IncidentNationalist troops ambush the Communist armyKuomintang forces surrounded and attacked the headquarters of the Communist New Fourth Army in southern Anhui. Thousands were killed or captured, and the Second United Front effectively collapsed.