November 5 Holidays

Guy Fawkes Night — Bonfire Night — is the British celebration of November 5, 1605, when Guy Fawkes and co-conspirators attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament with 36 barrels of gunpowder — their failure is commemorated annually with bonfires, fireworks, and the burning of Guy Fawkes effigies. National Redhead Day was established to celebrate red hair — the rarest natural hair color, produced by a variant of the MC1R gene and present in approximately 1 to 2 percent of the global population, most common in Northwestern European populations. American Football Day was established to celebrate American football — a sport whose Super Bowl commands the largest single-day U.S. television audience in history and whose NFL generates more than $17 billion in annual revenue. International Stout Day is observed on the first Thursday of November, celebrating the Irish dry stout — Guinness’s 1759 Dublin founding making it the most widely recognized stout in the world.