Take the second statement, 'Cleopatra's Needle is on the Charing Cross Embankment.' At first sight we should hardly call this an event.

It seems to lack the element of time or transitoriness.

But does it?
If an angel had made the remark some hundreds of millions of years ago, the earth was not in existence, twenty millions of years ago there was no Thames, eighty years ago there was no Thames Embankment, and when I was a small boy Cleopatra's Needle was not there.

And now that it is there, we none of us expect it to be eternal.

The static timeless element in the relation of Cleopatra's Needle to the Embankment is a pure illusion generated by the fact that for purposes of daily intercourse its emphasis is needless.