Bonfire Night fireworks over the Thames River in London, United Kingdom commemorate the 1605 Gunpowder Plot, led by Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 Ð 31 January 1606). Fawkes was a member of a group of Roman Catholic restorationists from England who planned the plots, which attempted to displace Protestant rule by blowing up the Houses of Parliament while king James I and the entire Protestant aristocracy were inside.(Australfoto/Douglas Engle)

Bonfire Night fireworks over the Thames River in London, United Kingdom commemorate the 1605 Gunpowder Plot, led by Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 Ð 31 January 1606). Fawkes was a member of a group of Roman Catholic restorationists from England who planned the plots, which attempted to displace Protestant rule by blowing up the Houses of Parliament while king James I and the entire Protestant aristocracy were inside.(Australfoto/Douglas Engle)