Guy Fawkes Night
Guy Fawkes Night is an annual commemoration observed on 5 November. Its history begins with the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when Guy Fawkes was arrested while guarding explosives the plotters had placed beneath the House of Lords. By the 1620s it was then known as the Fifth of the Fifth, and by the 20th century it was the predominant commemoration in...
