On this day, January 31, in 1606, at Westminster in London, Guy Fawkes, a chief conspirator in the plot to blow up the British Parliament building, jumped to his death moments before his execution for ...

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What pushed Guy Fawkes over the edge? What pushed Guy Fawkes over the edge? What turned him from a radical who wanted change to an extremist willing to kill? Foreign correspondent Jason Burke has the ...

As the hacking group Anonymous vows to “destroy” Facebook because of its privacy policy on Nov. 5, observed as Guy Fawkes Day in Britain, TIME looks back at the historical man and the legacy he left ...