Why does the UK celebrate the Fifth of November?

In the United Kingdom (consisting of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland), after all of the
Halloween festivities have ceased for another year bonfires and fireworks are reignited on 5 of November.
Why is that?

Well that’s because they are commemorating the failure of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 as a thanksgiving.
Why is that important? Well, the King of England at that time, King James 1° of England was a protestant
and ANY Catholic in England was tortured and executed. One Roman Catholic named Guy Fawkes had
enough of this sectarian purge and decided along with his men to load the cellars of the houses of
Parliament with 36 barrels of gunpowder which would be ignited on 5% November with the victims being
the House of Lords and King James. The House of Lords is the upper house of the British Parliament where
members who have been granted by appointment or hereditary title share the task of making and shaping
laws as well as challenging the work of the government.

It would've went through had it not been for a guard named Sir Thomas Knyvett catching Guy before
midnight on 4th November, just a mere 12 hours before the meeting.

The guards then took Guy to King James but he refused to name those who were involved in the plot and
King James decided that Fawkes would be tortured until he talked. He was right about that because after
Guy Fawkes was stretched on a rack (a torture device back in that time period), he screamed the names
that he tried so hard to withhold. Guy Fawkes was then executed on 31 January 1606. Executed had it not
been for Guy jumping from the ladder of the scaffold, breaking his neck upon impact. The first Guy Fawkes
Night was celebrated later that year. Masks with Fawkes’ likeness (a resemblance of his appearance) have
been used on burning effigies’ of him on 5% of November bonfires and in recent times became the face of
the group Anonymous.