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The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
August 20 Literary Facts
Twenty black indentured servants are brought to Virginia, becoming the first African-born bondsmen to arrive in America
H. P. Lovecraft is born
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Vassily Aksyonov is born
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