Today in history

1532: England’s King Henry VIII and France’s King Francis I sign a secret alliance against Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.

1848: “June Days” civil war begins as workers barricade Paris.

1980: Sanjay Gandhi, son of Indian Premier Indira Indira Gandhi, dies when his aerobatics plane crashes.

1998: The first large-scale Aids vaccine test US when 5 000 volunteers are injected.

2005: A rights group shows a video of poor Zimbabweans living in the open after the government tore down their homes.

2010: US President Barack Obama sacks his Afghanistan commander and replaces him with General David Petraeus.