18 November
1895 - on the initiative and under the leadership of V.I. Lenin created the St. Petersburg Union of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, a political social democratic organization that united the Marxist workers' organizations of St. Petersburg.

1899 - Born M.V. Vodopyanov - Soviet pilot, one of the first Heroes of the Soviet Union. Participated in the rescue of the crew of the steamer "Chelyuskin" (1934). During the Great Patriotic War, commanded the airdivision. The author of the books "Polar Pilot", "Valery Chkalov", etc.

1907 - The 4th Conference of the RSDLP (Third All-Russian) opened.

1917 - V.I. Lenin wrote the appeal "To the population." In it, he wrote: “Comrades, workers! Remember that you yourself now manage the state. No one will help you if you do not unite yourself and do not take all the affairs of the state in your hands. Your Councils are henceforth state bodies, plenipotentiary, decisive bodies ... ”.

1918 - The Communist government of Estonia is created in Petrograd.

1930 - In the period of the rise of the national liberation movement against the French colonialists in Vietnam, the United National Front of Vietnam was founded (since 1977 the Vietnamese National Front).

1945 - The Patriotic Front, dominated by the Communists, won the parliamentary elections in Bulgaria.