November 5 doesn’t mean much to most people around the world. Here, in our home in Spain, it’s just another workday.
However, in the UK it is one of the major events of the calendar – Guy Fawkes Night (also called Bonfire Night).
It commemorates the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605, when a group of leading Catholics planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament in an attempt to assassinate King James I and replace him with a Catholic monarch. Guy Fawkes was supposed to execute the plot, but was discovered in a cellar underneath Parliament along with the gunpowder.
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