February 26 in history: • 1914 – RMS Britannic, the third and largest Olympic-class ocean liner of the White Star Line after RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic, was launched at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast. → go there • 1979 – The Superliner railcar entered revenue service with Amtrak. → go there • 1995 – Barings Bank, the oldest merchant bank in London, was declared insolvent after its head derivatives trader in Singapore, Nick Leeson, lost £827 million while making unauthorised trades on futures contracts. → go there • 2014 – Former editor-in-chief of Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao Kevin Lau was stabbed, prompting concerns and protests about media freedom. → go there Died 1474: Eom Heung-do Wiki link Born 1629: Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll Wiki link Born 1954: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Wiki link Died 1981: Jennie Smillie Robertson Wiki link Pictured: Nabonassar's name in Akkadian.