"On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five"

"Hardly a man is now alive/Who remembers that famous day and year."

Yes, today is the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride:

One, if by land, and two, if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm.

Unfortunately, Longfellow's poem has now been banned in all K-12 schools and the military academies, because of the reference to Middlesex.