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    • Who are these people? McCartney, Clark, King (AP)

      On Sunday, a few hours after he was found dead in his California swimming pool at age 47, Rodney King—a central figure in the 1992 Los Angeles riots—began trending on Twitter.

      News of King's death was quickly followed by a related, if disturbing, Twitter trend: "Who is Rodney King?"

      "Who is Rodney King?" Briauna Mariee, identified on Twitter as "First Queen Standing," tweeted upon seeing King's name trending.

      "Is it bad that idk who Rodney King is," Twitter user Jiggy wrote, "cause I don't."

      "Who is Rodney king again? I forgot," Bougie Bre asked, adding: "#serioustweet."

      "Same thing I wanna know," user Carolina Girl tweeted.

      "[I don't know] who Rodney King is/was," @IAinTheDadMaury admitted. "Don't feel bad cause idk who he be either," @DatNikkaCuatro responded assuringly.

      "I'm not gone lie y'all," @isingiprayilove wrote. "I don't who [...] Rodney King is."

      "Wikipedia it," Bennie Cooper suggested in response.

      "Don't know who Rodney King is but we share the same last name," Raymond King, a self-described "semipro gamer," wrote on Twitter. "R.I.P."

      King's death was certainly not the first to baffle Twitter users. Television icon Dick Clark, author Ray Bradbury, Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb, disco queen Donna Summer, CBS News interviewer Mike Wallace, "Where The Wild Things Are" author Maurice Sendak, singer Levon Helm, Beastie Boy rapper Adam Yauch and hairdresser Vidal Sassoon—all of whom died this year—ended up cycling through the microblogging service in a similar manner:

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    • King (CNN)

      CNN canceled "John King, USA" on Wednesday.

      The ratings-challenged 6 p.m. talk show will be replaced on June 30 by an expanded, three-hour edition of "The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer."

      King will become CNN's chief national correspondent for the network's 2012 presidential election coverage—the role he also had during the 2008 cycle.

      "John will be providing reports for SitRoom, AC360 and other programs and CNN platforms," CNN's U.S. chief Ken Jautz wrote in a memo to staff obtained by TVNewser. "This is John's seventh presidential campaign, fourth with CNN, and making him available across our programming lineup allows us to better tap his skills and experience, especially on the ground reporting in major battleground states and among critical voting blocs."

      The change, Jautz wrote, is aimed to "bolster our political coverage heading into the critical stretch of the 2012 campaign."

      Blitzer's show--which was shortened to make room King at 6 p.m.--will now air from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., and feature King and others as correspondents.

      [Related: The secrets of Wolf's success]

      King's hour-long show debuted at 7 p.m. when it launched in March 2010, moving to 6 p.m. last year. But it struggled to find an audience at any hour.

      The show averaged 114,000 24-to-54-year-old viewers at 6 p.m.--down 40 percent compared to what "The Situation Room" drew in the same time slot.

      "Obviously wished we performed better," King wrote on Twitter. "Daily anchoring ends tad sooner than plan[ned], but now I get [to] do what I love: coming soon to a battleground state near you! All diner recommendations welcome."

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    • Anne Frank poses in 1941 (Anne Frank House)

      Seventy years ago, on her 13th birthday, Anne Frank received what would become the world's most famous diary.

      The red-checkered notebook was given to Frank by her father, Otto, on June 12, 1942—22 days before Frank and her German-born Jewish family went into hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

      "I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone," Frank wrote in the diary on the same day. "And I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support."

      Frank died in 1945 in a German concentration camp—crazy to think that Frank would've been just 83 today had she survived.

      The diary was published posthumously in 1947 by her father.

      The Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam is asking young people to celebrate her birthday by reflecting on her story. And they have: Frank's name was trending on Twitter early Tuesday.

      Frank's diary, Rosemary Jean-Louis wrote on GPB.org, "is an example of rudimentary social media that in the end made a tremendous impact."

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