Guy Fawkes Night
Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Bonfire Night and Fireworks Night, is an annual celebration on the evening of the 5th of November in Great Britain and several other "Commonwealth" Countries.
It celebrates the failure of the Gunpowder Plot, in which a group of 13 Catholic conspirators attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London on the night when Protestant King James I (James VI of Scotland) was within its walls — the evening of 5 November 1605.
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