2015 Event Serbian Novak Djokovic beats Swiss Roger Federer to win his second U.S. Men's Open title; a day earlier, Italian Flavia Pennetta beat fellow Italian Roberta Vinci in the U.S. Women's Open to win her first Grand Slam, then announced her retirement 2015 Event Novak Djokovic achieves his third Wimbledon title, winning over Roger Federer; if Federer won, he would have made history as the first to win eight Wimbledon titles 2014 Event Petra Kvitova beats Eugenie Bouchard to win the women's Wimbledon final; Novak Djokovic wins the men's final after defeating Roger Federer 2012 Event Britain tennis pro Andy Murray wins the16th gold medal for Britain during the 2012 Summer Olympics after defeating Roger Federer in the men's singles final 2012 Event At the 2012 Wimbledon Championships, tennis pro Roger Federer beats Andy Murray three sets to one at the Men's Singles final 2011 Event At the 2011 French Open, Roger Federer is defeated in mens singles by Rafael Nadal 2004 Event Wimbledon Men's Finals, Roger Federer beat Andy Roddick 2003 Event Wimbledon Men's Finals, Roger Federer beat Mark Philippoussis 2001 Death Roger Caras, American Activist 2000 Death Roger Vadim, director, And God Created Woman, dies at 72 1998 Event Mark McGwire breaks Roger Marris' 62 home run record for a season, and goes on to hit 70 home runs for the 1998 season 1997 Event Roger Clemens wins his 4th AL Cy Young Award 1997 Death Roger John Tayler, astrophysicist, dies at 67 1996 Event Free agent Roger Clemens signs with Toronto Blue Jays 1996 Death Roger Makins, diplomat, dies at 92 1996 Event Roger Clemens ties his own major league record with 20 strikeouts 1996 Death Roger Tory Peterson, born in Jamestown, New York, ornithologist/writer 'How to Know Birds', dies at 87 1996 Event Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens beats Yankees for his 200th win 1996 Death Roger Bowen, actor (M*A*S*H, Main Event, What about Bob), dies at 62 1995 Death Roger W. Suddards, solicitor, dies at 65 1995 Death Roger Joseph Zelazny, sci-fi writer, dies of cancer at 60 1995 Death Roger Zelazny, American Writer 1995 Death Roger de Grey, English chairman of Royal Academy (1984-93), dies at 76 1994 Event President brother Roger Clinton (37) weds 8-mo pregnant Molly Nartin (25) 1994 Death Roger Wolcott Sperry, physicist, dies at 89 1994 Death Roger "Ram" Ramirez, jazz piano player/composer, dies at 80 1993 Event Actor Roger Moore (James Bond) has his enlarge prostate removed 1993 Event Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out, Danny Tartabul - New York 1992 Death Roger Miller, country singer (King of the Road), dies at 56 1992 Event Film critic Roger Ebert marries Chaz Hammel-Smith 1991 Event Boston Red Sox Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award 1991 Event Panel of 8 baseball experts vote to drop asterisk next to Roger Maris home run record and determine an official no hitter must go at least 9 innings 1991 Event Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years 1991 Death Roger Swaybill, actor and writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point), dies at 47 1991 Event Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract 1989 Death Roger Pigaut, actor (Indoptable Angelique), dies 1989 Event Roger Kingdom of USA sets 110m hurdle record (12.92) in Zurich 1989 Event Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec) 1989 Event Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60m hurdles (7.37 seconds) 1989 Event Roger Clemens, Red Sox pitcher signs $7.5M-3 year contract 1988 Death Roger Vuataz, composer, dies at 90 1987 Death Roger Lewis, aviation executive (Lockheed, C Wright, Pan Am), dies at 75 1987 Event 1st 3 San Diego Padres hit home runs off San Francisco starter Roger Mason 1986 Event Roger Clemens wins AL MVP 1986 Event Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously 1986 Death Roger C Carmel, actor (Mudd-Star Trek, Mothers-in-Law), dies at 54 1986 Event All star MVP: Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox 1986 Event After 14 wins, Roger Clemens suffer his 1st loss of year 1986 Event Boston Red Sox Roger Clemens strikes out 20 Seattle Mariners 1985 Death Roger Maris, home run hitter, 61 in 61, New York Yankees, dies of cancer at 51 1985 Event New York Yankees retire Roger Maris (9) and Elston Howard (32) uniforms 1985 Event Roger Miller's musical "Big River," premieres in New York City 1985 Death Roger Huntington Sessions, U.S. composer (Black Masks), dies at 88 1984 Event Boston's Roger Clemens beats Twins, 5-4, for his 1st victory 1982 Death Roger Danneels, Flemish accordionist, dies at 55 1982 Death Roger J J Claessen, Belgian soccer star, dies at 41 1982 Event Roger Ebert's Movie News premieres on ABC FM network 1982 Event New York Mets draft Dwight Gooden, Roger McDowell and Randy Myers 1981 Death Roger Nash Baldwin, founder (ACLU), dies at 97 1981 Birthday Roger Federer, born in Wollerau, Switzerland, professional tennis player, ranked number one in the World in March 2010, many consider him the greatest tennis player of all time 1981 Event Roger Smith becomes CEO of General Motors 1979 Event Quarterback Roger Staubach's last regular season game with the Dallas Cowboys 1976 Death Roger Livesey, actor (Drum, Vice Versa, Col Blimp), dies at 69 1976 Event Roger Connor, Fred Lindstrom and ump Cal Hubbard elected to Hall of Fame 1974 Birthday Roger Cedeno, Valencia Edo Venezuela, outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers 1974 Birthday Roger Juffing, soccer player, Fortuna Sittard 1974 Death Roger Bastide, French sociologist, dies at 76 1974 Death Roger Pryor, actor (Lady by Choice), dies at 72 1973 Death Roger Delgado, actor (Adv's of Sir Francis Drake, Dr. Who), dies at 55 1973 Death Roger Delgado, actor (Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enought for June), dies at 55 1972 Event Super Bowl VI: Dallas Cowboys-24, Miami-3 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Roger Staubach, Dallas, QB 1971 Birthday Roger Salkeld, born in Burbank, California, pitcher, Cincinnati Reds 1970 Birthday Roger Bailey, born in Chattahoochee, Florida, pitcher for the Colorado Rockies 1969 Event Who's Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey charged with assault 1969 Birthday Roger Jones, NFL center for the Cincinnati Bengals 1968 Event AL expansion draft, Kansas City pick Roger Nelson and Pilots pick Don Mincher 1st 1968 Event 1st performance of Roger Sessions' 8th Symphony 1968 Birthday Roger Mar, born in Seattle, Washington rapid fire pistol 1996 Olympics 1968 Birthday Roger Reinson, CFL linebacker for the Calgary Stampeders 1968 Birthday Roger Twose, cricketer, Warwickshire batsman, New Zealand 1995 1967 Birthday Roger Pavlik, born in Houston, Texas, pitcher for the Texas Rangers 1967 Birthday Roger Duffy, NFL guard/center for the New York Jets 1967 Death Roger Babson, entrepreneur, business theorist, attended MIT, predicted Wall Street Crash of 1929, published Babson's Reports, oldest investment newsletter in U.S., dies at age 91, in Lake Wales, Florida 1967 Death Roger B Chaffee, astronaut, dies at 31 in Apollo I fire 1967 Birthday Roger Rowland, born in Jacksonville, Florida, Nike golfer, 1990 Macon Open-2nd 1966 Event A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith 1966 Event French and German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry 1965 Birthday Roger Dube, hockey forward, Team France 1998 1965 Death Roger Vailland, French playwright (La Truite), dies at 57 1965 Death Roger Vailland, French author, dies at 57 1964 Death Roger Bissiere, French painter, dies at 76 1964 Event Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle hit home runs runs on back-to-back pitches 1964 Event Roger Sessions' opera "Montezuma," premieres in West-Berlin 1964 Event Roger Sessions' 5th Symphony, premieres 1964 Birthday Roger Smith, Freeport Bahamas, tennis doubles player 1963 Event 29th Heisman Trophy Award: Roger Staubach, Navy (quarterback) 1963 Event New York Met Roger Craig's NL record-tying 18-game losing streak ends 1963 Birthday Roger Harper, cricketer, Guyana and WI off-spinner Extraordinary field 1962 Birthday Roger Kingdom, Vienna, Georgia, 110m hurdler, Gold Medals 1984, 1988 Olympics 1962 Birthday Roger Kingdom, U.S. 60m hurdler, world record 1962 Birthday Roger Clemens, born in Dayton, Ohio, pitcher for the Red Sox, Blue Jays, Cy Young, MVP 1962 Event Roger Maris walks 5 times (record 4 intentionally) in a 9 inn game 1961 Event Roger Maris is voted AL MVP 1961 Event Roger Maris sets record of 61 home runs off of Tracy Stallard 1961 Event Roger Maris hits home run number 60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record 1961 Event Roger Maris hits home run # 59 and barely misses # 60 in game 154 of the season. Yankees clinch pennant #26 1961 Event Roger Maris loses a home run (of his 61) due to a rain-out in 5th 1961 Event New York Yankee Roger Maris hits his 25th of 61 home runs 1961 Event Roger Maris hits 19th and 20th of 61 home runs 1961 Event Roger Maris hits 1st of 61 homers in 1961 1961 Birthday Roger Wessels, born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, golfer, 1994 Canadian Masters 1961 Birthday Ranking Roger, rock vocalist, English Beat-Drowning 1960 Birthday Roger McDowell, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, pitcher, New York Mets, Baltimore Orioles 1960 Event Roger Maris nips Mickey Mantle as AL MVP, 225-222 1960 Birthday Richard Roeper, born in Chicago, Illinois, film critic, columnist, 'Chicago Sun Times' newspaper, co-host of 'At the Movies' television series with Roger Ebert 1960 Birthday Roger Craig, NFL reciever for the San Francisco 49ers 1960 Birthday Roger Taylor, rock drummer, Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf 1960 Birthday Roger Wijesuriya, cricketer, bowling avg 294 in 4 Tests for Sri Lanka 1960 Event Roger Sessions' 4th Symphony, premieres 1959 Event Yankees trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer and Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley and Joe Deaestri 1958 Death Roger Martin du Gard, novelist/playwright, dies 1957 Event Roger Sessions' 3rd Symphony premieres in London 1957 Birthday Roger Clinton, singer, President Clinton's half-brother 1955 Event Roger Moens runs world record 800 m (1:45.7) 1955 Birthday Roger Binny, Indian cricket medium-pace all-rounder, early 80's 1955 Birthday Garry Christian, born in Liverpool, England, rocker, musician, singer, played with brother Russell and Roger Christian in sophisti-pop band, The Christians, known for late 1980's, early 1990's chart-topping hits 1954 Birthday Roger Voudouris, Sacramento California, rock vocalist 1954 Event Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy 1954 Event Roger Bannister of Britain breaks 4 minute mile (3:59:4) 1953 Death Roger Quilter, British composer, dies at 75 1952 Birthday Roger Milla, Cameroonian Athlete 1952 Death Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist (Mysteries of Love), dies at 52 1950 Birthday Charles Fleischer, Washington D.C., comedian, Roger Rabbit 1950 Birthday Roger Hodgson, London, rocker, Supertramp 1950 Birthday Roger Hodgson, rock vocalist, Supertramp-It's Raining Again 1949 Birthday Roger Steen, rock guitarist and vocalist, Tubes 1949 Birthday Roger Uttley, English rugby player 1949 Birthday Roger Taylor, British rock drummer, Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody 1947 Event Roger Sessions' 2nd Symphony, premieres in SF 1946 Birthday Roger Jett, Cumberland Maryland, actor, Smithereens 1946 Birthday Roger Tolchard, cricketer, English keeper played Tests as a batsman 1977 1946 Birthday Roger Freed, baseball player 1946 Birthday Roger Earl, rocker, Foghat 1946 Birthday Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry, born in Cameroon, astronaut, STS-18 1946 Birthday Syd Barrett, Roger Keith Barrett, lead guitarist, Pink Floyd-Brick in Wall 1945 Birthday Roger Glover, British hard rock bassist, Episode Six-Deep Purple 1945 Birthday Roger Bambuck, Guadeloupe, French 4X100 runner 1968 Olympics bronze 1945 Birthday Roger Lee Jones, West Virginia, child molester, FBI Most Wanted List 1944 Birthday Roger Waters, born in Cambridge, England, rock bassist, Pink Floyd-Wall 1944 Birthday Roger Ball, Scotland, saxophonist, Average White Band 1944 Birthday Roger Raised, English actor, Nicholas Nickleby 1944 Birthday Roger Chapman, rock vocalist, Family-Family Entertainment 1944 Birthday Roger Daltrey, English rocker, actor, producer, The Who, Tommy 1944 Birthday Roger Scruton, philosopher 1944 Birthday Roger Knapman, British MP 1943 Birthday Roger Donaldson, director, Cocktail, Cadillac Man, White Sands 1943 Birthday George Roger Waters, keyboardist, Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall 1943 Birthday Roger Smalley, born in Manchester, England, composer, pianist, conductor, studied with Alexander Goehr, specialty, improvisation, live electronics 1943 Birthday Roger Ruskin Spear, born in London, England, saxophonist, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band 1943 Birthday Roger Cook, investigative journalist and broadcaster 1943 Birthday Roger Swaybill, actor and writer, Porky's II, Breaking Point 1942 Birthday Michael Zaslow, Inglewood California, actor, Roger Thorpe-Guiding Light 1942 Birthday Bob Hoskins, Suffolk England, actor, Brazil, Who Killed Roger Rabbit? 1942 Birthday Roger McGuinn, guitarist, Byrds-Turn Turn Turn, Mr. Tambourine Man 1942 Birthday Roger Ebert, born in Urbana, Illinois, film critic, Siskel and Ebert at the Movies 1942 Birthday Roger Freeman, British minister of transport 1942 Birthday Roger Staubach, NFL quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys 1941 Birthday Roger J J Claessen, Belgian soccer star 1940 Birthday Roger K Crouch, Jamestown Tennessee, astronauts, STS-83, 94 1940 Birthday Roger Ailes, American Businessman 1939 Birthday Roger Prideaux, cricketer, England batsman in 3 Tests 1968-69 1939 Birthday Roger Buckley, British High Court Judge 1938 Birthday Roger Laver, Jackson, rock keyboardist, Tornados 1938 Birthday Roger Greenaway, composer 1938 Birthday Roger Hurn, CEO, Smith's Industries 1937 Birthday Roger McCough, British poet 1937 Birthday Roger McGough, British Poet 1937 Birthday Roger [Joseph] Zelazny, sci-fi author, 6 Hugos, Chronicles of Amber 1937 Birthday Roger Zelazny, American Writer 1937 Birthday Philip Chetwode, born in England, born 2nd Baron Chetwode, Baron Chetwode, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, heir apparent is Hon. Roger Chetwode 1937 Birthday Roger Penske, born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, owner, Penske Racing, auto racing team, the Penske Corporation, corporate director, General Electric 1936 Birthday Roger Sainsbury, bishop of Barking 1936 Birthday Roger Whittaker, born in Nairobi, Kenya, country singer, Durham Town 1936 Birthday Roger M Mahoney, born in Hollywood, California, archbishop of Los Angeles, 1985- 1936 Birthday Roger Mahony, American Clergyman 1936 Birthday Roger Miller, born in Ft. Worth, Texas, country singer, King of the Road, Dang Me 1935 Birthday Roger Christian, U.S., ice hockey player 1960 Olympics gold 1935 Birthday Roger B Chaffee, Grand Rapids Michigan, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut 1935 Birthday Roger B. Chaffee, Astronaut 1934 Birthday Roger Maris, Yankee, home run champ, 61 in 1961, AL MVP 1960, 1961 1934 Birthday Roger Donald Dickerson, composer 1934 Birthday Roger Reynolds, born in Detroit, Michigan, composer, professor, University of California at San Diego, founder, ONCE Group, won Pulitzer Prize 1989 1934 Birthday Roger Kendrick, governor, Dartmoor Prison 1934 Event U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner 1934 Birthday Roger Nicholas Edwards, born in England, born Roger Nicholas Edwards, Lord Crickhowell, Baron Crickhowell, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire, Secretary of State for Wales 1933 Birthday Roger Harris, cricketer, New Zealand opening batsman vs England 1959 1933 Birthday Roger Bowen, actor, M*A*S*H, Main Event, What about Bob, Petulia 1933 Birthday Roger Wittevrongel, Flemish painter 1933 Event U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner 1932 Birthday Roger Smith, South Gate California, actor, 77 Sunset Strip 1932 Birthday Roger C Carmel, actor, Harry Mudd-Star Trek, In-Laws 1932 Event Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chicago Cubs 1932 Event A's Roger Cramer gets 6 consecutive hits in a game (repeats in 1935) 1932 Birthday Wes Santee, born in Ashland, Kansas, runner, athlete, competed in 1,500-meter events, competed against Roger Bannister, John Landy 1931 Birthday Roger Penrose, English Physicist 1931 Event U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner 1930 Birthday Roger Birch, Chief Constable, Sussex 1930 Event Roger Hornsby replaces Joe McCarthy as Cubs manager 1930 Birthday Roger Durham Hannay, composer 1930 Birthday Roger W. Suddards, solicitor 1930 Birthday Roger Moens, born in Belgium, 800m runner 1960 Olympics silver 1930 Event U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner 1930 Birthday Roger Sims, born in Britain, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Chislehurst 1974 - 1997 1929 Birthday Roger John Tayler, astrophysicist 1929 Birthday Roger Matton, composer 1929 Event U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner 1929 Birthday Roger Bannister, born in England, 1st to run a 4 minute mile, May 6, 1954 1928 Birthday Roger Caras, American Activist 1928 Event U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner 1928 Birthday Peter Roger Hunt, born in London, England, director, Dr. No 1928 Birthday Roger Mudd, Washington D.C., news ancher, CBS Weekend News, NBC Evening News 1928 Birthday Roger Vadim, born in France, director, And God Created Women, Barbarella 1927 Birthday Roger Moore, born in London, England, actor, Alaskans, Maverick, Saint 1927 Birthday Roger Danneels, Flemish accordionist 1927 Event 1st performance of Roger Sessions' Symphony in E 1926 Birthday Roger Corman, born in Detroit, producer and director, Little Shop of Horrors 1925 Death Roger de la Fresnaye, French sculptor/painter, dies 1925 Event Washington shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh is named AL MVP 1925 Birthday Roger Smith, CEO, General Motors 1924 Birthday Brian Rix, born in Cottingham, England, born Brian Norman Roger Rix, Baron Rix, actor, appeared in film, The Night We Got The Bird, charity worker for Mencap 1923 Birthday Roger Foulon, French/Belgian poet 1923 Birthday Roger Parker, Lord Justice of Appeal 1922 Event Roger Hornsby sets NL home run mark at 42 1921 Birthday Roger Nixon, born in California, musician, composer, professor of music, composed for orchestra, band, choir, opera, Professor Emeritus of Music, San Francisco State University 1920 Birthday Roger Angell, American Writer 1920 Birthday Roger Price, born in Charleston, West Virginia, actor and writer, Who's There, Droodles 1920 Birthday Earl Kim, born in Dinuba, California, Korean-American composer, professor at Princeton and Harvard, studied with Roger Sessions, Arnold Schoenberg, Ernest Bloch 1918 Birthday Roger de Grey, president, Royal Academy 1918 Birthday Roger Delgado, born in London, actor, Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enought for June 1917 Birthday P Roger Peyrefitte, French writer, Singular Love 1916 Death Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), executed 51 1914 Birthday Roger Goeb, composer 1914 Event Yankee shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, becomes youngest manager 1914 Birthday Roger Aubert, Belgium, church historian, Le Pontificat de Pie IX 1913 Birthday Roger "Ram" Ramirez, jazz pianist/composer 1913 Birthday Roger Garaudy, French philosopher 1913 Birthday Roger Caillois, French writer, Les Jeux et les Hommes 1912 Birthday Roger Lewis, aviation executive, Lockheed, Curtiss Wright, Pan Am 1911 Death Roger Q. Mills, American Politician 1910 Birthday Roger L. Stevens, producer, Giant 1909 Event 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham and Eleanor Waring) 1909 Birthday Roger Stone, American Politician 1908 Birthday Roger Tory Peterson, born in Jamestown, New York, ornithologist/writer 'How to Know Birds' 1907 Birthday Roger Vailland, French author, La Novice, Et Mourir de Plasir 1907 Event New York Giant Roger Bresnahan becomes 1st catcher to wear shin guards 1906 Birthday Roger Livesey, born in Barry, Wales, actor, Drums, Life and Death of Col Blimp 1904 Birthday Roger Wolcott Sperry, physicist 1904 Birthday Roger Makins, diplomat 1903 Event Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo 1903 Death Victor Roger, composer, dies at 50 1901 Birthday Roger Pryor, New York City, actor, Belle of the Nineties, Identity Unknown 1900 Birthday Roger Blunt, cricketer, New Zealand all-rounder in 9 Tests 1930-32 1899 Birthday Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist, Coup of Trafalgar 1898 Birthday Roger Bastide, French sociologist 1898 Birthday Roger Vuataz, composer 1897 Event Roger Bresnahan debuts as Washington Senator pitcher (later HOF catcher) 1896 Birthday Roger Huntington Sessions, born in Brooklyn, New York, composer, Black Masks 1888 Birthday Roger Bissiere, French painter 1885 Birthday Roger de la Fresnaye, French sculptor/painter 1884 Birthday Roger Nash Baldwin, founder, American Civil Liberties Union 1881 Birthday Roger Martin du Guard, born in France, novelist, Les Thibault-Nobel 1937 1879 Birthday Roger P Bresnaham, hall of fame catcher/manager 1877 Birthday Roger Quilter, British composer 1875 Birthday Roger Babson, born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, entrepreneur, business theorist, attended MIT, predicted Wall Street Crash of 1929, published Babson's Reports, oldest investment newsletter in U.S. 1866 Birthday Roger Fry, English Artist 1864 Death Roger Taney, 5th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1836-64), dies at 87 1864 Birthday Roger David Casement, Irish nationalist, Easter uprising 1916 1863 Death Roger Weightman Hanson, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 35 1857 Birthday Roger Connor, 1st baseman for the New York Giants 1853 Birthday Victor Roger, composer 1832 Birthday Roger Q. Mills, American Politician 1828 Birthday Roger Atkinson Pryor, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1798 Event Rep Matthew Lyon, Vermont spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold,Connecticut, in U.S. House of Representatives, after an argument 1777 Birthday Roger Brooke Taney, Calvert, Maryland, 5th Chief Justice, Dred Scott dec 1721 Birthday Roger Sherman, signer, Articles of Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution 1693 Death Roger de Rabutin, French Writer 1679 Death Roger Boyle, British Soldier 1664 Event Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island 1646 Event Roger Scott was tried in Mass for sleeping in church 1635 Event Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony 1631 Event Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England 1621 Birthday Roger Boyle, British Soldier 1618 Birthday Roger de Rabutin, French Writer 1545 Death Roger Grenville, English captain of Mary Rose, drowns 1352 Death Clement VI, Pierre Roger, Pope (1342-52), dies 1130 Event Anti-pope Anacletus II crowns Roger II the Norman, king of Sicily
