This Week in California History: The Glove Doesn't Fit OJ, Google Is Born

Where would we be without this week in history? It was this week in history that the Model T was built, the ipod invented, Google debuted, and California was set free from Spanish rule.

In California, Sept. 27 also kicks off a historically bad week for wildfires from San Diego to Humboldt County. But it’s also the time of year that our favorite baseball teams catch fire with the Oakland A’s, San Francisco Giants and Padres all clinching titles in this week in history. Poor Dodgers. It was this day in history that they landed the dubious distinction of coming in dead last.

Here are the highlights of Sept. 27 to Oct. 3 in California history courtesy of thisweekincaliforniahistory.com and thepeoplehistory.com

Sept. 27

1821: Spain and Mexico sign a treaty that effectively frees California from Spanish rule.

1965: Silent film siren Clara Bow dies in Los Angeles.

1989: Oakland wins the American League West title the same day San Francisco wins the National League West title.

1989: U.S.A. Zsa Zsa Gabor storms out of the courtroom where she is being tried for slapping a Beverly Hills police officer who pulled her over for expired plates.

1990: A Gunman held 33 people hostage in a Berkeley bar, killing a UC Berkeley student.

1992: LA Dodgers clinch last place for the first time in club history.

1998: Google is launched.

2002: West Coast ports shut down in crippling labor strife.

2010: The temperature in Los Angeles was a record 113 degrees.

Sept. 28

1542: Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, a Spanish explorer ‘discovers’ San Diego Bay.

1974: The Beach Boys’ Surfin’ USA is released.

1974: California Angels’ Nolan Ryan pitches a no-hitter.

1998: Orel Hershiser of the Los Angeles Dodgers, breaks Don Drysdale’s 1968 record with 59 consecutive scoreless innings.

1991: The great trumpeter Miles Davis dies in Santa Monica.

2005: Topanga Fire burns 24,175 acres and injures 31 people.

Sept. 29

1907: Singing Cowboy Gene Autry is born.

1923: Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park is opened to the public.

1946: The Rams play their first game in L.A.

1989: Zsa Zsa Gabor is convicted of battery for slapping a Beverly Hills police officer.

1996: The San Diego Padres swept the Los Angeles Dodgers for the division title.

Sept. 30

1955: James Dean dies in a Porsche crash on the way to a race in Salinas.

1962: César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association.

1999: The Giants play their last game at Candlestick Park.

Oct.1

1891: Stanford University is founded in Palo Alto.

1910: The Los Angeles Times building is bombed in a labor dispute, killing 21 people.

1948: With a California Supreme Court ruling, California becomes the first state to recognize interracial bans as unconstitutional.

1964: The free speech movement begins at U.C. Berkeley.

1987: The 5.9 magnitude Whittier Narrows Earthquake kills eight people.

2012: California becomes the first state to ban conversion therapy for gay and lesbian minors.

Oct. 2

1916 : San Diego Zoo is founded at Balboa Park.

1963: Dodgers’ Sandy Koufax strikes out 15 Yankees in the World Series.

1966 Sandy Koufax pitches shutout to clinch a third Dodgers pennant in 4 years.

1985: Actor Rock Hudson dies from Aids at his home in Beverly Hills.

Oct. 3

1933: The Griffith Park Fire kills 29 volunteer firefighters.

1995: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of murder.

2001: Apple introduces the iPod for $399.

2008: O.J. Simpson is convicted of robbing sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint.

Photos: OJ Simpson trying on the gloves during his murder trial - Youtube; Bombing of the LA Times Building in 1910 - Wikimedia Commons; The Giants last game at Candlestick Park - Youtube.