 Flag Officer David G. Farragut became the first Rear Admiral of the United States Navy. On this date in 1790, prior to that, a site along the Potomac River was designated the permanent seat of the United States government. The area became Washington, D.C. And for all those that want Washington, D.C. to be a state in and of itself, well, that land was donated by Maryland and Virginia, so you could just give that land back there to those states, and there you go. And you can move to one of those states then and be represented.