14 March It Happened Today

1492  Queen Isabella of Castile orders Spain’s 150,000 Jews to convert to Christianity or be expelled.

1883  Death of Karl Marx.

1932  George Eastman, inventor of the Kodak camera, commits suicide.

1933  Birth of the English actor Michael Caine.

1953  Nikita Kruschev becomes First Secretary of the Communist Party in USSR.

1975  Death of the American actress Susan Hayward.