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Arsenal Football Club is a football club based in north London. It plays in the FA Premier League and is one of the most successful clubs in England. Arsenal has won thirteen First Division and Premier League titles, and ten FA Cups, although the team has yet to achieve similar success in the UEFA Champions League. Arsenal was founded in south-east London in 1886, but moved to their current home ground, the Arsenal Stadium, Highbury, in 1913. In the summer of 2006, the club will move to the new 60,000-seater Emirates Stadium in nearby Ashburton Grove. Arsenal enjoys a fierce rivalry with Tottenham Hotspur, from nearby Tottenham, whom they play in the North London derby.

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Selected anniversaries

November 7:

• 1665: The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English newspaper, was first published.
• 1885: Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the first transcontinental railroad across Canada, concluded with Sir Donald Smith driving in the "last spike" in Craigellachie, British Columbia.
• 1917: Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin (pictured) led a coup d'état against the Russian Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky, starting the October Revolution.
• 1940: In the U.S. state of Washington, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a windstorm.
• 1987: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali deposed Habib Bourguiba to become President of Tunisia.
• 1996: NASA launched the Mars Global Surveyor.

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In the news

• President Jacques Chirac (pictured) pledges to restore order as the 10-day-old Paris riots spread across France.
• Opposition leaders allege major voter fraud in the Azerbaijan parliamentary election.
• The Fourth Summit of the Americas concludes, with no agreement reached on reactivating the stalled FTAA process.
• David Blunkett resigns from the UK Cabinet for a second time following allegations of ministerial misconduct.
• Justice John Gomery releases his first report on corruption in the Liberal Party of Canada and the sponsorship scandal.