Guns don't kill....

If you were not aware of this day, you are probably wondering, what the heck is that? Gunpowder day is a day that commemorates the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and Guy Fawkes. The goal of this plot was to blow up the Houses of Parliament while King James I and the entire Protestant, and most of the Catholic nobility were inside.

Wow, talk about a terrorist act! This was in response to the continual discrimination of English Catholics. Unfortunately (or fortunately), Guy Fawkes was arrested just hours before the scheduled explosion.

Although Guy Fawkes was put in charge of this attack, it was Robert Catesby who was the mastermind of the plot.

In some areas of the UK, the commemoration includes the burning of an effigy of Guy Fawkes.

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