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How Guy Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot compares to nuclear attack on London

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Guy Fawkes was caught under London 's House of Lords with a box of matches and 36 barrels of gunpower.

He was found guilty of trying to blow up Parliament and assassinate James I of England .

But the disastrous blast was foiled, and he was tortured on the rack before being tried for high treason in 1606 .

Bonfire Night marks the failed gunpowder plot to blow up Parliament in 1605 .

It takes its name from Guy Fawkes - a member of of the Catholic plot designed to assassinate the Protestant King James I and replace him with a Catholic .

The plot failed, the conspirators were discovered and they were hanged, drawn and quartered.

Londoners celebrated James I surviving the murder attempt by lighting bonfires around the city.

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