> Doesn't "historic low" mean "lowest it ever was in history"? No, not AFAICS. Because if that were so, then "this historic event" could only mean one single e

> Doesn't "historic low" mean "lowest it ever was in history"? No, not AFAICS. Because if that were so, then "this historic event" could only mean one single event, the most historic event ever. That's obviously nonsense; there are / have been many historic events. And if there can be many of those, there can also be at least several historic lows.