Guy Fawkes Night
Guy Fawkes Night at Windsor Castle, 1776
Guy Fawkes Night (also known as Bonfire Night) is a firework festival in Britain. It remembers the Gunpowder Plot of 5 November 1605.[1]
Guy Fawkes Night Media
An effigy of Fawkes, burnt on 5 November 2010 at Billericay
Revellers in Lewes in East Sussex, 5 November 2010
A group of children in Caernarfon, November 1962, stand with their Guy Fawkes effigy. The sign reads "Penny for the Guy" in Welsh.
Spectators gather around a bonfire at Himley Hall near Dudley, on 6 November 2010
Spectators watch a fireworks display in November 2014
1768 colonial American commemoration of 5 November 1605
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References
- ↑ "Guy Fawkes Day". Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
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