On this day in 2000, Microsoft released both Windows Me and the most recent update to MS-DOS. In 1998, telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom completed their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom. In 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 2 crashed onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it. In 1958, German engineer Ernst Mohr's two rockets--the first German post-war rockets--reached the upper atmosphere. And in 1886, typewriter ribbon was patented. Happy Birthday Faith Ford (1964), Sam Neill and Jon "Bowzer" Bauman (1947), and Ivan Pavlov (1849). RIP Juliet Prowse (d. 1996), Grace Kelly (1982), US President William McKinley (1901), US Vice President Aaron Burr (1836) and John Harvard (1638). "The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be." - Paul Valery