an
event taking
place in
England on the 5th of November each year commemorating the arrest of
Guy Fawkes (1570 - 1606), an
English conspirator who, on the 5th of November 1605, took part in a
plot to
blow up the British Houses of
Parliament to kill
King James I. The
day is celebrated with fireworks, and bonfires
burning his effigy.