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I thought it is about when Julian calendar was dropped in favour of Gregorian, but that's not it:
Also some of the islands around the International Date Line did switch their stance on which side of the Date Line they are. So... they might have had a day twice or lost a whole day in the process. And maybe, they didn't change sides only once...
E.g. see here https://youtu.be/cpKuBlvef6A
A great video you linked, the missing Friday is in it on timestamp 22:45
The Thursday 29th of December 2011 was followed by Saturday 31st of December 2011 on Samoa