* 1946 – Jack Straw, English politician

However, UK Home Secretary Jack Straw took the responsibility to release him on medical grounds, and refused to extradite him to Spain.

In June 2004, the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw stated that US authorities had repeatedly assured him that no detainees had passed in transit through Diego Garcia or were disembarked there .< ref > In October 2007 the all-party Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Parliament announced that it would launch an investigation of continued allegations of a prison camp on Diego Garcia, which it claimed were twice confirmed by comments made by Retired US Army General Barry McCaffrey.

St Albans played a role in the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381: the peasants, led by a local man William Grindcobbe and Jack Straw, forced their way into the Abbey and demanded a charter for the freedom of St Albans from the Abbot (' Charter of freedom of the villeins of St Alban's forcibly obtained from the Abbot and Convent ', 16 June 1381 ).

In 1999 the then Home Secretary Jack Straw introduced a controversial bill to limit the right to trial by jury.

* August 3 – Jack Straw, British politician

* June 12 – Peasants ' Revolt: In England, rebels from Kent and Essex, led by Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, meet at Blackheath.

The names of some of its leaders, John Ball, Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, are still familiar in popular culture, although little is known of them.

Meanwhile the " Men of Essex " had gathered with Jack Straw at Great Baddow and had marched on London, arriving at Stepney.

An anonymous play was published in London in 1593 entitled " The Life and Death of Jack Straw ," in which Straw, Wat Tyler, John Ball, and others appear as characters.

Geoffrey Chaucer mentions Jack Straw, one of the leaders of the revolt, in his satiric The Nun's Priest's Tale in The Canterbury Tales.

Recent speakers at the LSE have included Kofi Annan, Hilary Benn, Ben Bernanke, Tony Blair, Hazel Blears, Cherie Booth, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Alistair Darling, Niall Ferguson, Joschka Fischer, Vicente Fox, Milton Friedman, Muammar al-Gaddafi, John Lewis Gaddis, Alan Greenspan, Tenzin Gyatso, Will Hutton, Paul Krugman, Richard Lambert, Jens Lehmann, Lee Hsien Loong, John Major, Nelson Mandela, Mary McAleese, Dmitri Medvedev, John Atta Mills, Mario Monti, George Osborne, Robert Peston, Sebastián Piñera, Kevin Rudd, Jeffrey Sachs, Gerhard Schroeder, Carlos D. Mesa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Costas Simitis, George Soros, Lord Stern, Jack Straw, Aung San Suu Kyi, Baroness Thatcher, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rowan Williams.

(* McComas had starred in William DeMille's Jack Straw in 1920 )

" He specifically named Lord Levy who was Blair's official representative in the Middle East and Labour Party politicians Peter Mandelson ( whose father was Jewish ) and Jack Straw ( whose great-grandfather was Jewish ).

Jack Straw, then British Foreign Secretary, said: " All of us understand Israel's need to protect itself – and it is fully entitled to do that – against the terrorism which affects it, within international law.

In 1381, during the Peasants ' Revolt, Jack Straw led a mob of 20, 000 rioters who " so offended by the wealth and haughtiness " of the Knights Hospitallers destroyed the manor house.

Jack Straw and some of his followers used the site as a temporary headquarters ; consequently the derelict manor became known for the next 500 years as Jack Straw ’ s Castle.

This should not be confused with the better known Jack Straw ’ s Castle, formerly a pub and now residential flats at Whitestone Ponds, Hampstead, which was named after the semi-legendary leader of the revolt.

John Dawes, a wealthy stockbroker, acquired the site of Jack Straw ’ s Castle together with of surrounding land.

* Jack Straw, Member of Parliament ; former Home Secretary ; former Foreign Secretary ; former Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons ; former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Secretary of State for Justice.

As Home Secretary the Labour MP Jack Straw discovered the existence of his own file dating from his days as a student radical.

" Jack Straw apologised for these comments regarding the veil on Sunday, 26 April 2010 at a private hustings organised by Engage in the build up to the 2010 Elections.

`` Maybe '', Jack said idly, watching for Miss Langford.

Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

`` I've been bursting my lungs for you '', Mr. Jack complained.

Through the door, he had seen Mr. Jack walking around, waiting for Miss Ada.

Over the first five frames, Jack Fisher, the big righthander who figures to be in the middle of Oriole plans for a drive on the 1961 American League pennant, held the A's scoreless while yielding three scattered hits.

Wingback Jack Collins injured a knee in the Washington State game but insists he'll be ready for Oklahoma.

Ramsey has a thing or two to mutter about himself, for the Dallas defensive unit turned in another splendid effort against Denver, and the Texans were able to whip the dangerous Broncs without the fullbacking of a top star, Jack Spikes, though he did the team's place-kicking while nursing a knee injury.

Emcee Jack Herbert insists Dick Nixon's campaign slogan for governor of California is, `` Knight Must Fall ''!!

They chose four: Jack Casey, who works for Continental Airlines in Houston ; ;

Jack Frost is not really responsible for this great seasonal spectacle ; ;

Through Jack Hamrick, William fell into the world of automobile promotion and got several accounts for Shoals and Clay.

Being reasonably sure of the reason for the long pause, however, did not make it seem any less long to Jack.

The skiff was headed for the very center of the nebula -- toward that place which, Jack knew now, could hold nothing less important than the very core of the Angel's life and religion.

The circumstances preceding the mutiny on the Bounty and Jack London's story " Make Westing " poignantly illustrated the difficulty it caused for mariners seeking to round Cape Horn on the clipper ship route between New York and California.

* 2012 – Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, British politician and campaigner for disabled rights ( b. 1922 )

However, when, under manager Jack Kirwan, the club got promoted to the top flight of Dutch football for the first time in 1911 ( then the Eerste Klasse or ' First Class ', later named the Eredivisie ), Ajax were forced to change their colours because Sparta Rotterdam already had exactly the same outfit.

This manuscript, which Jack Sharrar recovered in 1982 during his research for Avery Hopwood, His Life and Plays, was published July, 2011.

The elite Legend status was bestowed on 12 members of the Hall of Fame in 1996: Ron Barassi, Haydn Bunton Senior, Roy Cazaly, John Coleman, Jack Dyer, Polly Farmer, Leigh Matthews, John Nicholls, Bob Pratt, Dick Reynolds, Bob Skilton and Ted Whitten ( see above list for further details ).

* Morin, Jack Anal Pleasure & Health: A Guide for Men and Women, Down There Press, 1998.

Due to the acquisition of the Atari Consumer Division by Jack Tramiel in 1984, a number of planned peripherals for the system were canceled.

Fearless Fosdick — and Capp's other spoofs like " Little Fanny Gooney " ( 1952 ) and " Jack Jawbreaker "— were almost certainly an early inspiration for Harvey Kurtzman's Mad Magazine, which began in 1952 as a comic book that specifically parodied other comics in the same distinctive style and subversive manner.

( He did, however, donate his services as a speaker at a $ 100-a-plate fundraiser for Republican Congressman Jack Kemp.

* Jack Billion ( born 1939 ), the 2006 Democratic Party candidate for governor of South Dakota