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#OnThisDay – January 31, 1606 Guy Fawkes was executed following the failure of the Gunpowder Plot, the Catholic conspiracy to blow up King James I and the Houses of Parliament. Convicted of high treason, Fawkes was sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered. At his execution at Old Palace Yard, Westminster, he leapt from the gallows, breaking his neck and dying instantly—avoiding the full brutality of the sentence. His body was then mutilated as the law required. His name lives on more than fo

Guy Fawkes, a key figure in the failed Gunpowder Plot of November 1605, was executed on 31 January 1606. Known as Guido Fawkes during his service with the Spanish in the Low Countries, he was part of a group of English Catholic conspirators whose attempt to blow up Parliament ended in capture and brutal punishment.

Million Mask March Honors Guy Fawkes in D.C.