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Events on Sunday 3 July 1904 1
1860 – 1904Theodor Herzl (1860-1904)Died 3 July 1904, aged 44Theodor Herzl, the Austro-Hungarian journalist and founder of modern political Zionism, died of heart failure in Edlach, Austria. His pamphlet Der Judenstaat and organizing of the First Zionist Congress laid the ideological groundwork for the eventual establishment of the State of Israel. He is regarded as the father of the Zionist movement.