Calendar of Literary Facts
June 8...
793: Vikings attack the Christian monastery at Lindisfarne, off the Northumberland coast, in the first major raid by the Scandinavian sea-raiders
1809: Thomas Paine dies
1889: Gerard Manley Hopkins dies
1903: Marguerite Yourcenar is born
1927: George Lamming is born
1929: Bliss Carman dies
1947: Sara Paretsky is born
