Guy Fawkes Day is a festival celebrated on November 5th in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. It commemorates the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a failed assassination attempt against King James I by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby and Guy Fawkes. Today, Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated with fireworks displays and bonfires where Guy Fawkes effigies are burned.