Taco Bell's original restaurant design with its first logo sign in Wausau, Wisconsin.

Taco Bell was founded by Glen Bell who first opened a hot dog stand called Bell ’ s Drive-In in San Bernardino, California in 1946 when he was 23 years old.

Bell sold the El Tacos to his partner and built the first Taco Bell in Downey in 1962.

Kermit Becky, a former Los Angeles police officer, bought the first Taco Bell franchise from Glen Bell in 1964, and located it in Torrance.

In 1991, Taco Bell opened the first Taco Bell Express in San Francisco.

Taco Bell began co-branding with KFC in 1995, when the first such co-brand opened in Clayton, North Carolina.

The commercial represents Taco Bell's first foray into movie theater advertising, featuring the ad during the opening previews of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Public Enemies as well as screens in some movie theater lobbies.

Taco Bell first opened in Australia in September 1981, but Taco Bell was ordered to change its name after the owner of a local restaurant successfully sued Taco Bell for misleading conduct.

Taco Bell has been present in Canada since 1981, with the first store opening in Windsor, Ontario.

Greece's first Taco Bell opened in Athens upon the grand opening of the newly constructed Athens Metro Mall on November 30, 2010.

India's first Taco Bell outlet opened at the Mantri Square mall, Bangalore.

Taco Bell opened its first Philippine branch on October 30, 2004 at the Gateway Mall in Cubao, Quezon City.

The first Polish Taco Bell store was opened in 1993.

The first Taco Bell for the general public was opened in the Islazul Shopping Mall, Madrid, in December 2008.

The United Kingdom was the first European country with a Taco Bell, although it remains extremely difficult for UK inhabitants to patronise a store.

Brands announced that it is considering reopening Taco Bell locations in the United Kingdom as part of a large planned expansion into Europe, with trial outlets opening first in Spain in early 2009.

" Taco Teatro ", a Spanish-language, University of Melbourne-based theatre company produced the first adaptation of Rojo Amanecer on stage in May 2008 depicting the events happened in the Plaza de Tlatelolco at the Guild Theatre in Melbourne, Australia.

He appeared on the first episode of the 1996 series The Taco Bell Dana Carvey Show on ABC.

Taco Bell ran the first X-Men: Evolution themed promotion with its Kid's Meals.

Taco Bell re-entered the UK market in June 2010 with the opening of its first stores at Lakeside.

The first users outside Pragma were Taco Hoekwater, Berend de Boer and Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen, and the first user outside the Netherlands was Tobias Burnus.

Its first commercial use was as a seven-bit teleprinter code promoted by Bell data services.

* 1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, though it took ten years for the DynaTAC 8000X to become the first such phone to be commercially released.

The first major model for communication was introduced by by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver for Bell Laboratories in 1949 The original model was designed to mirror the functioning of radio and telephone technologies.

The Bell Labs ( then known as the Bell Telephone Laboratories ) was one of the first institutes to conduct a research program in condensed matter physics.

A replica of the first point-contact transistor in Bell labs

Charlotte's first manuscript, The Professor, did not secure a publisher, although she was heartened by an encouraging response from Smith, Elder & Co of Cornhill, who expressed an interest in any longer works which " Currer Bell " might wish to send.

Some of the earliest animation done using a digital computer was done at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the first half of the 1960s by Edward E. Zajac, Frank W. Sinden, Kenneth C. Knowlton, and A. Michael Noll.

Thomas Bell patented the technique of printing by copper rollers in 1783, and the first machine was set up by Livesey, Hargreaves & Co near Preston in 1785.

Atkins's first hit single was " Mr. Sandman ", followed by " Silver Bell ", which he did as a duet with Hank Snow.

It was developed by Western Electric and first used by the Bell System in commerce, using that name as a registered trademark.

In the first era ( 1st – 6th editions, 1768 – 1826 ), the Britannica was managed and published by its founders, Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell, by Archibald Constable, and by others.

The field-effect transistor was first patented by Julius Edgar Lilienfeld in 1925 and by Oskar Heil in 1934, but practical semi-conducting devices ( the JFET ) were only developed much later after the transistor effect was observed and explained by the team of William Shockley at Bell Labs in 1947.

While working at Bell Labs in November 1937, Stibitz invented and built a relay-based calculator that he dubbed the " Model K " ( for " kitchen table ", on which he had assembled it ), which was the first to calculate using binary form.

Michael Bell says that while Hel " might at first appear to be identical with the well-known pagan goddess of the Norse underworld " as described in chapter 34 of Gylfaginning, " in the combined light of the Old English and Old Norse versions of Nicodemus she casts quite a different a shadow ," and that in Bartholomeus saga postola " she is clearly the queen of the Christian, not pagan, underworld.

The example program from that book prints "" ( without capital letters or exclamation mark ), and was inherited from a 1974 Bell Laboratories internal memorandum by Brian Kernighan, Programming in C: A Tutorial, which contains the first known version:

In Shannon's revolutionary and groundbreaking paper, the work for which had been substantially completed at Bell Labs by the end of 1944, Shannon for the first time introduced the qualitative and quantitative model of communication as a statistical process underlying information theory, opening with the assertion that

In the first case, Agin discussed falsified results in the development of organic transistors: ' As far as understanding junk science is concerned, the important aspect is that both Bell Laboratories and the international physics community were fooled until someone noticed that noise records published by Jan Hendrik Schön in several papers were identical-which means physically impossible.

* 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Kelp in The Nutty Professor, his first CGI animated film, a sequel to his 1963 film, co-starring Drake Bell as the voice of his nephew, Harold Kelp.

Lint first appeared ( outside of Bell Labs ) in the seventh version ( V7 ) of the Unix operating system in 1979.

* 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying " Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.

In 1961 the American physicist Eugene Kunzler and coworkers at Bell Labs discovered that niobium-tin continues to exhibit superconductivity in the presence of strong electric currents and magnetic fields, making it the first material to support the high currents and fields necessary for useful high-power magnets and electrically powered machinery.

Gardiner Greene Hubbard became its first president and his son-in-law, Alexander Graham Bell, eventually succeeded him in 1897 following his death.