1. I owe my participation in this now- historic event to TED.

2. QUESTION: Admission of Afghanistan in our fold, as you claim, is a historic event.

3. He said it was a historic event and that he is certain it will inaugurate a new era and a new relationship between the two countries.

4. The 311 parliamentarians, who welcome the historic event represented by the enlargement to include 10 central European countries, say that they continue, although working hard and amidst a thousand difficulties to establish freedom, democracy and the rule of law, to be kept on the margin of Europe and to be excluded from the real process of European unification.