Births on May 13

Ruth Adler Schnee

Born on May 13, 1923

Ruth Adler Schnee, German-American textile designer and interior designer

Ruth Adler Schnee (born May 13, 1923) is an American textile designer and interior designer based in Michigan. Schnee is best known for her modern prints and abstract-patterns of organic and geometric forms. She opened the Ruth Adler-Schnee Design Studio with her spouse Edward Schnee in Detroit, which operated until 1960. The studio produced textiles and later branched off into Adler-Schnee Associates home decor, interiors and furniture.

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16 Feb

Tutankhamun
Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
25 Jun

Aerial refueling
Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH.4B biplane
1 Jul

History of Chinese immigration to Canada
The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
12 Sep

Zimbabwe
Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
29 Oct

Ottoman Empire
Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.

Births on May 13

Ruth Adler Schnee

Born on May 13, 1923

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Tutankhamun

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History of Chinese immigration to Canada

Zimbabwe

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