ON THIS DAY SEPTEMBER 30

1901 Dutch attorney Cornelis Broeksma is executed by firing squad at the Johannesburg Fort after his information about the appalling conditions inside British concentration camps falls into the hands of the British.

1941 About 3 700 Jews are buried alive by the Nazis at Babi Yar, Ukraine.

1946 At Nuremberg, 22 Nazi leaders are found guilty of war crimes.

1955 Movie star James Dean dies at the age of 24 in a car crash in his Porsche in California. 2004 A fire destroys the Wanderers Cricket club in Johannesburg, reducing to ash documents, photos, trophies and records. 2004 Merck & Co withdraws an arthritis drug, Vioxx, from the market after it was found that it caused tens of thousands of heart attacks. 2005 Drawings of the Prophet Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten enrage the Muslim world.

2015 Russia starts an air operation to combat international terrorist groupings at the request of the Syrian government.