So was yesterday really a 'history day'

[LadyGlencoraPalliser]

as the man on the BBC repeatedly asserted? Or would you have preferred him to call it an historic day?

That made me cringe!! It doesn't even make sense - it was definitely an historic day ..

I'd have gone for a historic, as I pronounce the h.

'a historic'

'history day' sounds like you're at school.