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Contralto Marian Anderson gave her farewell concert at Carnegie Hall on 18 April 1965, bringing her thirty-year career to a close.

Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong began a goodwill tour of Africa, partially sponsored by the U.S. State Department, on 13 October 1960 to enthusiastic acclaim.

The New York City Ballet, under the artistic direction of George Balanchine, made an acclaimed tour of Russia. It was his first visit to his homeland in forty years.

On 15 March 1964 British actor Richard Burton married Elizabeth Taylor after a highly publicized romance and after the two divorced their respective spouses. It was his second marriage and her fifth.

In November 1966 writer Truman Capote hosted an extravagant Black and White Ball in New York—a masquerade for which attire was limited to those two colors. Its guest list of 540 included prominent figures in the arts, the...

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