On May 7th 1915, the British trans-Atlantic liner Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine. The Germans claimed that the ship was transporting weapons. The Americans denied it and used the disaster to justify their declaration of war.
6th June 1944. The beaches of Normandy are the scene of the most spectacular military operation of all time: the Normandy Landings. They owe their success, though, to a gigantic lie: a phantom army and a network of double agents.
In 1979, in the midst of the second oil crisis, two eccentric inventors proposed to the French industrial oil giant, Elf, a concept for an aircraft able to detect oil deposits underground.