historic vs. historical

historic   1. well-known or important in history: a historic building; historic occasions   2. notable, renowned, famous, famed, memorable

historical

1. of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records;       historical research.

2.	based on or reconstructed from an event, custom, style, etc., in the past: a historical reenactment of the battle of Gettysburg.

3.	having once existed or lived in the real world, as opposed to being part of legend or fiction or as distinguished from religious belief: to doubt that a historical Camelot ever existed; a theologian's study of the historical Jesus.

4.	narrated or mentioned in history; belonging to the past.

5.	noting or pertaining to analysis based on a comparison among several periods of development of a phenomenon, as in language or economics.

쉽게 생각해서,

historic은 ‘역사적인, 역사적으로 의미있는, 중요한’,

historical은 ‘과거의, 옛날의, past’의 뜻으로 보면 됨.</font></strong></u>