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1962 Homer Blancos plays finest round in golf, shooting a 55

1959 Kapil Dev, cricketer, India's finest all-rounder 1978-94, Cup-1982

1947 Zaheer Abbas, cricketer, probably Pakistan's finest batsman ever

1940 Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour"

1935 Rohan Kanhai, cricketer, one of West Indies' finest batsmen

1933 Arif Melikov, born in Baku, Azerbaijan, name also Arif Malikov, Soviet composer, nationally acclaimed for composition Legend of Love whose ballet is among the finest works to emerge from the Soviet Union

1924 Harold "Red" Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs)

1834 Delmonico's, one of New York's finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee and half a pie for 12 cents

1738 John Singleton Copley, Massachusetts, finest colonial American artist


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