Every year this time in the UK, the population get mad with fireworks and people end up in hospital and peoples pets get driven demented.
the money that goes up in smoke in the sky is quite ridiculous, they have a firework display in Princes Street, Edinburgh and you can hear the fireworks from where i live which is about three quarters of a mile away.
Why do they do this, well for For 400 years, bonfires have burned on November 5th to mark the failed Gunpowder Plot.
I think today he would have been called a terrrorist, funny how things change.
anyway for more info here is link
Guy Fawkes and the Gun Powder plot