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Events on Sunday 19 May 1974 1
1974Giscard d'Estaing elected French presidentNarrow runoff victory following Pompidou's deathValéry Giscard d'Estaing narrowly defeated Socialist François Mitterrand in a presidential runoff, following the death of President Georges Pompidou earlier that year. He became France's youngest president since Napoleon III.