Title: Sally Ride
Content:  Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman in space. She was the third woman in space overall, after USSR cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982). Ride remained the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32, until 2021 when Hayley Arceneaux flew on SpaceX's Inspiration4 mission at the age of 29. After flying twice on the Orbiter Challenger, she left NASA in 1987. Ride 
Title: October 1968
Content: Soviet cosmonaut Georgi Beregovoi, 47, became the oldest person up to that time to be launched into outer space, as the U.S.S.R. sent up Soyuz 3, its first manned space mission since the program had been halted by the April 24, 1967 death of Vladimir Komarov. Beregovoi was rumored to be on a mission to go into lunar orbit Instead, Beregovoi remained in Earth orbit and performed a rendezvous (but not a docking) with the unmanned Soyuz 2 spacecraft. After 61 orbits, Soyuz 3 returned safely to Earth on October 30. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, the Soyuz program released records showing that Beregovoi had failed in the docking attempt because he "had been trying to dock with Soyuz 2 while flying Soyuz 3 upside down" and "had to be 'rescued' by ground control from his precarious predicament", after which further attempts were canceled. 
Title: June 1963
Content: Valentina Tereshkova of the Soviet Union became the first woman in history to travel into outer space, when she was launched as a cosmonaut on Vostok 6. Tereshkova was also the twelfth person to be sent into orbit.  A woman would not travel into outer space again for twenty years, with U.S. astronaut Sally Ride being launched on June 18, 1983, as a mission specialist on the space shuttle Challenger.  Tereshkova, who would retire from the Soviet Air Force as a colonel, would marry her fellow cosmonaut, Andriyan Nikolayev, and go into politics, becoming a deputy of the Supreme Soviet, and a member of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee. ; David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel since it had become independent in 1948, resigned for what he described as "personal reasons". Ben-Gurion also quit his post as Israel's Defense Minister, which he had held since 1955.  He would be replaced by Levi Eshkol. ; In an attempt to resolve the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam, a Joint Communique was signed between President Ngo Dinh Diem and Buddhist leaders. 
Title: November 1933
Content: Otto Fischer of Germany became the first person to be launched in a manned rocket, lifting off from the island of Rügen in a liquid oxygen and gasoline fueled missile, rapidly ascending to an altitude of six miles, and then returning to earth by parachute ten minutes later. ; Sally Rand, who had attained fame doing the suggestive "fan dance", announced that she was giving up her signature routine. ; Born: ; Charles K. Kao, Chinese-born physicist known as the "Father of Fiber Optic Communications", in Shanghai (d. 2018); ; Didier Ratsiraka, President of Madagascar from 1975–1993 and 1997–2002, in Vatomandry (d. 2021); ; Odumegwu Ojukwu, Nigerian general who led the abortive secession of Biafra from 1967 to 1970, in Zungeru (d. 2011) ; Mildred McDaniel, American track athlete who held the women's world record for the high jump; in Atlanta (d. 2004) ; Died: John Jay Chapman, 81, American author 
Title: Gemini 8
Content:  Command pilot Neil Armstrong resigned his commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1960. His flight marked the second time a U.S. civilian flew into space (after Joe Walker on X-15 Flight 90),  and the first time a U.S. civilian flew into orbit.
Title: British Airways Flight 5390
Content:  The aircraft was repaired and returned to service, eventually being sold to Jaro International in 1993. It continued to operate with them until Jaro ceased operations in 2001, the aircraft going on to be scrapped the same year. Tim Lancaster returned to work after less than five months. He left British Airways in 2003 and flew with EasyJet until he retired from commercial piloting in 2008. Alastair Atchison left British Airways shortly after the incident and joined Channel Express and remained there until he made his last commercial flight on a Boeing 737-33A (registration: G-CELE) from Alicante to Manchester on his 65th birthday on 28 June 2015.
Title: Jo Lancaster
Content:  Lancaster retired in 1984. He has over 13,000 flight hours in his logbooks. As of 2003, he lived in retirement. In 2006, he corresponded with Aeroplane, providing details of his historic ejection. Lancaster died on 10 August 2019 at the age of 100.
Title: December 1960
Content: The Vostok-K rocket made its maiden flight, carrying a satellite with two dogs, Kometa and Shutka. An attempt to put the payload into orbit failed when the third stage failed seven minutes into launch, but the dogs survived the landing. ; John F. Kennedy resigned from his position as the junior United States senator for Massachusetts, in preparation of his January 20 inauguration as President of the United States. ; Born: ; Tyrell Biggs, American heavyweight boxer, in Philadelphia ; Luther Campbell, American rapper (2 Live Crew), in Miami ; Died: Sir Ninian Comper, 96, Scottish architect 
Title: Jo Lancaster
Content:  John Oliver Lancaster (4 February 1919 – 10 August 2019) was a Royal Air Force bomber pilot who transitioned to a career as a test pilot for various firms. On 30 May 1949, he ejected from the experimental Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52 flying wing in a "primitive" Martin-Baker Mk.1 seat, becoming the first person to eject from a British aircraft in an emergency.
Title: Alan William James Cousins
Content:  In 1938 he married Alison Mavis Donaldson and they had two children. His official retirement was in 1972 but he ignored it and continued to work at the observatory. He retired from the South Africa Observatory on 31 December 1976 but remained in a part time capacity and kept his official house on the observatory grounds. He was an active observer into his 90s and continued to work on photometric problems. In the early 1990s in Dublin, one of the speakers, Dave Crawford, while bemoaning the current generation of astronomers asked the audience if they had ever spoken to one of the great astronomers including Johnson, Kron, Cousins, etc, little knowing that Cousins was in the audience.

Question: Verify the following claims with "True" or "False": An astronaut (born on (in or after) 1553 in British Hong Kong) retired on March 1998 date.
Answer: False